AdrianC

@AceAndrew you are such a gentleman and a scholar that I can’t thank you enough. I will email you. Thank you thank you. 

So uh, little update: as I was prying off the faux wood, I cracked the glass covering the speedo. Luckily i was able to avoid cracking the other two. A half hour of pretty concerted searching for replacement glass hasn’t yielded me any leads. Any ideas?

@AceAndrew there’s a plug for you in the pic. Thanks for the LP light lenses 

@TMK_74_2002A just picked up a set, thank you! Doesn’t seem like they have the trim that surrounds the entire gauge cluster area though. Maybe that can just be painted on. 

On 12/12/2018 at 1:24 AM, stephers said:

For the original poster, from your name, I am assuming that you have a 74 2002. If that is the case, you have a faux wood cluster. There are some after market rings that fit into the faux wood 9 just a press in set up )  that look quite nice If you do a search on here you can see them.    I have a set of those for sale  brand new.  If you dont have a 74, then it will be important to know what year that you have.

 

AdrianC   You have the right gauges in the wrong cluster   You need the cluster with the flat black background.  The trim rings around the 3 gauges are just painted silver but just a thin line, not the entire ring.  If I remember right, underneath the faux wood is the same flatblack as the earlier cars. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember removing the faux wood and using the cluster that way

 

Thanks, Rick

Thanks @AceAndrew and others. So it looks like I DO a need to source the rings and not just buy some aluminum model paint. Any further suggestions or leads would be appreciated. 

I too am looking to bring my April 1970 gauge cluster back to original appearance. Oddly, it has silver dollars, no chrome rings, and a faux wood veneer. I have read on other threads that you can either paint the wood matte black or remove the veneer with some kind of solution. I’m not sure what to do about the chrome rings though. Any advice would be appreciated!

I’m in the same boat with just the lenses. @AceAndrew now that a few months have passed, what has your friend at Hella said about reproducing them? Or, did you 3D print a couple extra?