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Instrument Cluster TRICK !!

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Old 02-06-06, 08:11 PM
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Instrument Cluster TRICK !!

I just got done putting new white gauge faces in my 84 GS and they look great. I figured out a little trick I figured I would share with anyone who will be pulling the gauge faces for any reason. If you disconnect the speedo cable from the tranny you can feed it thru the firewall and it makes much easier to get the cluster out. This gives you plenty of room to get your hands behind the cluster and pull the rest of the connections. It took about 15 minutes total to get the cluster out and then back in once I replaced the faces. Hope it helps someone else.
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That's a damn good idea. That should get stickied
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Originally Posted by FirebirdSlayer666
That's a damn good idea. That should get stickied
and how do you do that ?
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Mods have to do it.
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Only a moderator can "sticky" a thread. This is a good idea, but IMO, not really worth it. if you know what your doing, you can pull a cluster in 5 min without pulling the whole speedo cable out.

EDIT: Damn, beat me to it.
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Originally Posted by 85rotarypower
Only a moderator can "sticky" a thread. This is a good idea, but IMO, not really worth it. if you know what your doing, you can pull a cluster in 5 min without pulling the whole speedo cable out.

EDIT: Damn, beat me to it.
didn't pull the cable all the way out, just fed enough thru to get behind the cluster and disconnect.
Old 02-06-06, 10:42 PM
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I guess when I posted it here:
https://www.rx7club.com/showpost.php...97&postcount=6

In this thread:
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ghlight=speedo

And several times over the past few years, that it wasn't "archive" worthy.


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Lol, sorry Directfreak

I guess us omnipresent mods do miss things sometimes

Archived, *including* Directfreak's links to his original posts

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lol...ahhh what would we do without you mods...well one things for sure we wouldn't be able to find anything by ourselves...lol...or rather you couldn't...jk of course...or am I? ooo scary
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just crawl under there and use your go go gadget arms.




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