Gas gauge low fuel light-plastic replacement Options

[PBC914]

I pulled my fuel gauge/warning light/oil/alt belt gauge today to clean the lens on my 75 1.8. Interesting that this gauge and the speedo are both glass but the center tach is plastic (must have been using up stock at the factory).

Anyway I read somewhere about someone trying to figure out what to replace the red plastic piece with that is used to indicate low fuel. Mine like others had faded and looked really bad.

I had a dark red spray paint cap from repainting my heater control knob. I cut out a piece and then cut it to the right shape and flattened it and taped it in place. The color looks good with a light shining through it, with plenty of light, but looks red, not pink.

Thought I would post this in case others ever want to replace-it was very easy to do.

[Rob-O]

Hey Spoke, I think we're actually talking about the little red piece of plastic that is near the 'R' on the gas gauge. It lights up (or is supposed to!) when your gas level is low. Most of them are now heavily faded. We were just trying to figure out an ideal way to replace that faded part when we re-furbish the gauge.

It sounds like you are talking about the entire piece of glass that covers the instrument itself. Personally I'm not a big fan of the plastic that is on the 74 and up gauges, but I haven't yet made it to a glass place that will cut me the pieces in the size we would need.

I'll bet one of the members here who restores the gauges would be able to provide them, and probably do when you send your gauges in to them. I'd also be willing to bet that Palo Alto and North Hollywood change them out to glass when they do their restorations.