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 Biggy, yeah, I was just searching around the house and thinking of what I could use and that just came to mind.

This is plainly one of those cases where we're both geniuses, not a case where where neither are because we both thought of it. Ford and Daimler both thought of and built cars around the same time. I'd say both were geniuses not both were not!! Positive thinking!!!