Diving into dash gauge mend/mod.

[Creighton]

1989 Thunderbird Super Coupe.
Not adept at such things. Hope enough spares on hand:-).
Creighton

[davethebirdman]

Wow.. A much braver man than me... Good luck.

[Ltransam]

I'm. OUT !!!!!


I KNOW NOTHING !!!!!

[scalebowler]

Looks like fun. I've torn my gauges apart before to replace the gear in my odometer after I learned the hard way that you should never push the reset button while the car is moving. Luckily I knew when it broke and was able to roll the odometer forward the amount of miles I traveled so it is pretty much correct +/- a couple miles. I also think I have that same soldering iron. Greatest soldering iron I've ever owned. Thing only takes about 30 seconds to heat up

[tkaz]

Takes me back to college and my '91 T-bird, took the dash apart to change the color of the glow, real PITA to get it back into the dash if I remember correctly.  That car had some demons, but I learned to fix a lot of things in the process.

[Creighton]

Thanks for the replies!!

Success getting the hard to find 145mph apart. It gets new ODO gears as doubt will have a second chance. Stripped one cluster to see how much room is available for mods.

Dash lighting is a mess on MN-12's. LED's will help some.

Yep, Weller DEC 1001. Good eye.

Way overdue for this old dog to learn new tricks. Having a grand time. Some pics.
Creighton
 

[scalebowler]

If I remember right this was the place I got the gears for the odometer in the Dynasty http://www.odometergears.com/index.php

[Creighton]

Thanks,
Got a laugh. Pulled the 18 bulb/sockets off the 141k gauge cluster. 17 tested good last one just needed a remove and reset. 28 years old. Wish the spendy stuff had held up as well :-).
Creighton