ok i got the gauges done, i had to push the clips of the black peice in and use a "place holder" basically (credits cards that were old and such) to keep the tab open and worked my way around until all were done. hope this helps someone.

they look amazing. Lyle does fantastic work. pictures will be up either tomorrow or during the week, whenever i get a chance. im still trying to remove the othe chrome bits from the car to send to Lyle for my next project. haha

 

Has anybody found a trick to removing the needles? I will be installing my gauges soon, and I really want to try and avoid cutting them and would like to pull off the needles.

 

anyone happen to have a write up for how to do the gauges without taking the whole dash apart and removing the speedo totally?

 

There is no way around it. You have to take everything apart.

There's a good video on removing the speedo: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...al-on-r56.html. For the speedo only, you can skip the middle steps where he demonstrates taking apart the center console.

 

^yea, i guess that's what I was thinking was avoidable.

oh well, shouldn't be too hard either way

 

That video discourages me to do this mod. It sure is nice though...

 

^it's easier and less intimidating then it looks. You don't need to do anything around the center console. The "hardest" part is popping off the trim behind the tach.

 

For those of you that cut slits to slide around the needles rather than popping off the needles, how did you cut your tach overlay. I know most have cut along the zero line so that it lies behind the needle when the car is off. My question is did you cut directly through the dash and 0, or did you cut down that line and then go around the number 0 and dash?

Also, how much double sticky did you use on the back of the speedo gauge. I had installed one previously, but was having problems with it warping. Not sure if I messed it up when installing and bent it too much, or the high heat we've had recently. Just trying to see how much sticky tape everyone used and where you placed it.

Thanks for the help.

 

my speedo just started warping in the warm weather too...

i went to the extreme on the tach and cut out the entire clear section that would go over the screens. Mine got scratched and trying to clean it up only made it worse. I decided I'd rather spend 20 mins cutting them out then settling for them being scratched and looking like crap. It made it really easy for where to cut, Just a small little slit in the thin portion below the needle.

 

I'm not happy that yours is warping too, yet I'm glad to know that it's not just me. I was thinking about doing the same on the tack. Did you just take an exacto knife and cut around the edges really slowly and carefully?

 

Here are a couple of links that helped me, post #40 in the second link has a couple of links to instructions and pictures that guided me through the whole process. Cutting the new face to slide over the needle was the only way I could do it cuz the needles were never going to come off!

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...uge-faces.html

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...cf-gauges.html

 

Is anyone else, besides DFW137, having issues with the speedo gauge overlay warping in the hot summer temps? Any recommendations on how to fight it? I'm wondering if it's cause I cut it to slide it over the needle. It seemed like I layed a lot of double stick tape, but that didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

My speedo lifts a little bit, but not much. I didn't use tape or glue to hold it down, just dry. It may be a bit wavy depending on temperature, but nothing to worry about.

 

mine's so bad it actually is messing up the movement of the speedo needle.

I'm going to take mine apart and use most of the tape in the center, none at the edges.

The problem is that the plastic that was used has a high expansion rate. If you put it on in cool weather, when it heats up it expands. with tape cut up and put in a ton of locations it will cause it to bunch up.



and yes, I just worked very slowly with an exacto knife to cut out the clear areas on the tach.