Help!, I Just Screwed my gauges!
08-23-02, 01:17 AM
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Help!, I Just Screwed my gauges!
The other day jazzed up my interior and ordered some white faced gauges. After I finished painting my interior I replaced the stock gauges with these new white ones. Now my readings are waaay off, or don't read at all. My oil pressure, and battery gauges work but very little. Anyone replaced a set of gauges and run across this problem?
08-23-02, 07:49 AM
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I jazzed my interior right in the dumpster! down to the driver and passenger seats
You can have my gauge cluster? I'm thinking of an aluminum dash in the near future
You can have my gauge cluster? I'm thinking of an aluminum dash in the near future
08-23-02, 09:26 AM
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Which set of gauge faces did you get?
It's VERY tricky to remove and replace the needles if you have to do it - I messed with white face gauges YEARS ago and destroyed 2 instrument clusters until I got the hang of it.
Best bet on white gauge faces IMHO are the Indiglo gauge faces that are for sale on Ebay - those suckers look like a million bucks, and are super easy to install. fc3s.org has a writeup/pics on the install.
Anyhow, you're probably looking at a new cluster. Good thing is they're not hard to come by used - I picked one up for my girlfriend's car from a guy on the parts trader for like $25. The clusters are different - '86-88 NA, '87-88 Turbo, '89-91 NA, '89-91 Turbo. I'm assuming you have an NA due to the voltmeter, which makes it a lot easier to find.
Dale
It's VERY tricky to remove and replace the needles if you have to do it - I messed with white face gauges YEARS ago and destroyed 2 instrument clusters until I got the hang of it.
Best bet on white gauge faces IMHO are the Indiglo gauge faces that are for sale on Ebay - those suckers look like a million bucks, and are super easy to install. fc3s.org has a writeup/pics on the install.
Anyhow, you're probably looking at a new cluster. Good thing is they're not hard to come by used - I picked one up for my girlfriend's car from a guy on the parts trader for like $25. The clusters are different - '86-88 NA, '87-88 Turbo, '89-91 NA, '89-91 Turbo. I'm assuming you have an NA due to the voltmeter, which makes it a lot easier to find.
Dale
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