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Title: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: Creighton on February 26, 2017, 01:12:18 am 1989 Thunderbird Super Coupe.
Not adept at such things. Hope enough spares on hand:-). Creighton Title: Re: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: davethebirdman on February 26, 2017, 03:31:30 am Wow.. A much braver man than me... Good luck. Title: Re: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: Ltransam on February 26, 2017, 08:34:23 am I'm. OUT !!!!! I KNOW NOTHING !!!!! Title: Re: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: scalebowler on February 26, 2017, 07:51:54 pm 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
Title: Re: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: tkaz on February 26, 2017, 09:36:37 pm 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.
Title: Re: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: Creighton on February 27, 2017, 03:00:31 am 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 Title: Re: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: scalebowler on February 27, 2017, 05:45:37 pm If I remember right this was the place I got the gears for the odometer in the Dynasty http://www.odometergears.com/index.php
Title: Re: Diving into dash gauge mend/mod. Post by: Creighton on February 28, 2017, 10:28:18 pm 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 |