Disengaging claws- How?

This is to remove the air duct sub-assembly. I can't figure out how to disengage the claws. Help me please?

 

You can't see the diagram from TIS?

 

Unfortunately that didn't quite work. I've attached more pictures of the actual areas. I think those are the areas by the diagram. The Toyota service instructions are pretty terrible. They give no direction on how things are done. Plus the diagrams are laughably small. I've tried prying it off in different directions and smashing the lip part down with a flathead screwdriver. It won't budge.

 

I'm going to Harbor Freight later and picking up some pry tools. I'm afraid my screwdriver will break something. I can see myself doing that as this is super frustrating. I kind of feel like just ripping the thing off.

 

Still no luck with the pry tools. It's dark here so guess I'll try again tomorrow.

 

Thanks for this, and the much better resolution. Weird how TIS refers to them as "claws". I'll have to look again to see if I'm really seeing the right areas and not other non-essential fasteners to remove the air duct assembly. I see one clearly connecting the unit from below. I have to get in a very acrobatic position lying down across the passenger floor looking up to see it. The other I'm not sure is correct at the top right in the illustration. I'll report back.

 

Update! It's off. Thanks Elek for giving me the courage to just pull it off. That's all it required. I pulled hard and it popped off. I don't think I broke it either. Now, from here I'm trying to reset the cog wheel. As you can see I have much better access to it now with the duct removed. I need to get that wheel back on track to allow the heat flappers to properly change modes. Does this look broken or like something I can reset? I started to loosen the screws on the actuator to see if I could possibly re position.

 

It looks like the arm of the servo this not properly attached to the bigger wheel. Does anyone know where this connects? I attached it to the cog in the picture below although this must not be correct. It doesn't move it. The other wheels seem to move okay. The big one is not properly set. I just need to learn how the arm controls it.

 

It was me. I've been having this same issue for almost a year.

 

I think I made a breakthrough. So I discovered there are two arms that control the flaps. The first one that is most visible is the heat to your feet. The back one furthest away is to the defrost flap. The large cog has grooves on it. I played around fitting the grooves into the arms, while switching modes. I got defrost blowing again, but the other modes seem to be off now. I think I'm satisfied for now but will probably look at it again soon. Any more help regarding the positioning of the cog in the grooves would be appreciated.