Again my Sir Andy school of photography is paying off!

Next you need to cover that back woods engineering! If you want the black flat face, mix up a little filler and fill it , and paint it. Or do as I do, use a silver button, and paint it black, I like a profile change, adds a little depth and dimension to the gauge. For this one I needed a silver button, so that is what I did.

In the instructions it says to drill out the silver button. A little tip is the silver button is mounted on a steel rivet. You can gently pry the two apart. Use your fav glue and put it back on. I used Valco HV-350 It will glue about anything to anything, and is paintable if you get messy. Add a dab of glue and hide that screw!

There you go you will not know that screw was there now from the outside.

You might want to let that glue dry wheel before butting it up. the glue could outgas and cause a film to be created on the inner glass.

Next you add the intermediate gauge face. then clean the glass or plastic and add that. If-using glass, 100% isoperic (sp?) alcohol will clean it up really nice. Note: I am waiting on the outgas process to complete, but want to finish this post so, my glass is not clean.

Next you snap the outer ring back onto the Gauge can. I use a brass punch, once done some paint will have flaked off, touch it up, you don't want rust. the rubber mount ring will cover up most of your pro paint job here.

Thats all except putting it into the dash and wiring it up.

Now I get to go an grab a cold one!

Those look great. Almost as nice as mine.

I use the late fuel gauges in mine.

Me, too, John. It was easy to use the late fuel gauge; I just transferred the same holes used for the other gauges to the lower location used by the fuel gauge. A bit of tracing paper helped, and of course I stuck it in a drill press to make the actual holes. It was a pretty easy modification of the "early fuel gauge" backplate that I got with my kit.

--DD

Hi Steven,

Do you know where I can get one of these kits ?

Thanks,

Jan

I bought mine from John.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=58970