Hi John
Don't put high pressure air in the back of the gauges, you will almost
certainly damage them, the big gauges have hair springs in to return the
needle to rest and the small ones are made with bits of bent metal hooked
together with a needle slotted in there somewhere. What I'm trying to say is
they are fragile!
Don't start by bending the tabs, take a firm grip of the bezel and the body
and rotate the two bits until the tabs line up with the slots in the case,
if this doesn't work then resort to bending the tabs. be careful not to
disturb the position of the needles in the gauges or your approximate gauges
will become nothing more than random!
Graham,
1967 1300 FWD
1968 2000 Saloon
1972 2.5PI Saloon
1974 Sprinted Dolomite 1850
1975 Toledo in restoration!
http://www.triumph-iw.co.uk
http://www.mickdolphin.co.uk Spares Supplier.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lumia, John" <jlumia@ball.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: gauge cleaning
|
| I am in the process of re-veneering the dash in my TR6 and while the
gauges
| are out I'd like to clean out some of the dust that seems to have
collected
| internally. Does anyone have any recommendations? Does one carefully
bend
| back the tangs holding the chrome bezels to the body? Has anyone tried to
| blow out the dust, particularly the larger gauges that have two bulb
| openings?
|
| John Lumia 76 TR6
| Louisville, CO
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