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Old 10-13-2006, 05:52 PM
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while installing my blue LED's and guage bezels today i accidently slightly bent my tachometer needle. are there repaacements? andyone have somethign lying around?
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How bad is it? If its not too bad, why can't you just carefully bend it back?
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its not horribly bent, but enought to bug me. tried bending it back it just buckles.
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I have a feeling you may get stuck buying an entire gauge cluster to get another needle.
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There is an instrument repair shop the advertises in Pano every month, they might have some thing which would work, worth a try,
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you can carefully take it off and rebend it, it's like aluminum foil, there are two tabs that fold under on either side of the ****, . if that isn't good enough i have a faded one. should be cheap to mail it and paint it.



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