Speedo Needle
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The needle is just pressed on. Take the bezel off, and remove the clear cover on the instrument cluster. Pull the needle off. It's not pressed on hard, you can do it with you fingers. Turn the key to the on position, and press the needle back on in the 0mph position.
Kurt
Kurt
Don't reset the needle pointing at 0. See that tick mark on the guage face below 0MPH. Pull the needle stop out, reset the needle so it points at the tick mark, then lift it up and reinstall the needle stop pin.
I see. This way the needle rests against the stop with a small amount of pressure. Is that a correct assumption?
Thanks. What about the tach? It's not off by much but I still want to correct it. It doesn't have a stop I don't think. So just pull it off an reposition it at 0?
Tach just point to 0. There is a procedure to tune the tach to be more accurate, but it involves an oscilloscope and tuning the pots on the backside.
I've never had to tune my pot, but then it's been a long time, 'cept when I was follow'n those guys in a pickup truck.
I'll give it a try, thanks. I have some burnt bulbs in the cluster to replace as well.
Can't remember whether those are 168, or 194 bulbs. Either way, the parts stores sell 10 packs for commercial accounts for like $3. See if you can score one, and just go ahead and change them all.
Kurt
Last time I was at my local pic n pull I was swarming over a 93 4 banger convertible. The inst cluster had been removed and I found it in the trunk. I snagged all the bulbs from it. I also snagged the drivers side inner fender skirt and the auto trans shifter bezel. Got everything for $15
I'm trying to reset the needles now. Got the bezel off and tried to pull the speedo and tach needles off. They're not coming off. I can even feel the shaft lifting up but they still wont pop off. Should they just come off easily? I wonder if the person who put these white faces on glued the needles on. I hope the heck not but I wouldn't be surprised considering all the other messed up stuff on this poor car! Do I just pull harder and harder? I'm worried I'll break something and wind up needing to replace the entire cluster.
I used a fork to leverage mine off. They just press onto the shafts. Place a piece of paper between the fork and guage face to avoid scratching them
Does the shaft come out too? I got the tach off but the shaft came with it. On the speedo, the counter weight came unglued from needle but the needle wont budge off, with or without the shaft
mikestang63
SN Certified Technician
They make a little fork like tool to remove the needle which I pickedup a few decades ago. You can use a small fork like for shrimp or a small needle nose plier
I tried prying up with a fork. The fork tines bent and the needle won't come off. No way should it take this much force to get it off. Something must be wrong. I think whoever put these white faces on here glued the needles back on. I might be shopping for a replacement cluster. Damn!
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