How to install gauge overlays?
How to install gauge overlays? I recently bought some white face gauges and was having some trouble installing them? Can anyone tell me how to install them without taking the entire dash apart? Any help would be great!!!!!!
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two screws on the upper half of the clear cover / bezel will allow its removal. 4 more screws, 2 top, 2 at bottom corners will allow you to remove the cluster. just pull it out, its hooked in by electronic contacts so there are no wires or cables to worry about.
Don't remove the needles unless the holes are smaller than the black disks the needles are attached to. the 97+ clusters being electronic are also auto-setting unlike the older mechanicals. you can move the needles around as you chose and they will read right when put back in. reason i say this is its easiest to simpley point the needles all in one direction and slide the overlay in place. I found the battery gauge is really springy. So i had to put the overlay over it first then pivot it down on the rest.
Don't remove the needles unless the holes are smaller than the black disks the needles are attached to. the 97+ clusters being electronic are also auto-setting unlike the older mechanicals. you can move the needles around as you chose and they will read right when put back in. reason i say this is its easiest to simpley point the needles all in one direction and slide the overlay in place. I found the battery gauge is really springy. So i had to put the overlay over it first then pivot it down on the rest.
