lglracer
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- Jul 13, 2008
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Ok everyone with either a 1ga or 1gb. Here is a quick way to make a quick upgrade that cost pritty much nothing. What we are going to do is basically change that stock orange gauge color and turn it to white. Heres how you do it.
1) Your going to need a long handled screw driver to get the black face plate off and get the screws. Now on the side where the two dots are theres a plastic piece there and it just pops off by grabbing the top and bottom and pulling. A helpful hint is to lower your steering all the way down to give you the most room possible.
2) Now that all the screws were out just pull the black frame forward and rotate it counter clock wise so you can take out the three plugs or two plugs if your a 1gb. Now when putting it back you can mess them up because there all different plugs.
3) Now that you have that there are four screws in the gauge cluster to undo and then you just pull the gauge cluster out.
4) Now you have to do the tricky part. There are a bunch of clips you have to take off. The clear ones are for the clear plastic and the black are for the black cover. Take off the clear plastic. Now the trick is to work your way around the cluster so you don't break any of the tabs off and to keep spreading the plastic apart so the tabs don't re-clip back on. Next do the same thing with the black tabs and work your way around.
5) Now that you have that off you can start undoing the screws for the gauges. now for a trick mark your gauges where the needles are at or you'll have to redo everything again and its a pain to do.
6) Next take the needle of with a very small set of needle nose pliers and just push it off be putting the pliers under the needle and just pry it up. Then take a screw driver and undo the two black screws and pull the gauge apart.
7) Now the modifying part. You take the back of the gauge and take some sand paper and sand it down to the regular plastic and take all that covering off.
8) Now after doing that hers the difference in the light.
9) Now do that to all your gauges and put them back in and then put the black plastic on but leave the clear plastic off. Now put it back into the car and start your car and make sure you put all the needles back in the same place. If you didn't just pop them back off and put them where there suppose to be. Im mainly talking about the temp, oil, and gas gauges. The rpm and the speed are normally fine if you put them back in the same spot. Now that everything is correct put the plastic cover on and start to put every thing back now remember on the frame to plug in the 3 plugs and the rotate it clockwise now and put the screws back in.
NOW HERES THE FINAL PRODUCT
It may seem to be orange still but thats because of the pix and I didn't sand it very good. But it really works. Than you can go get leds and put them in and it will be very white.
If you guys have any questions just post it or pm me.
1) Your going to need a long handled screw driver to get the black face plate off and get the screws. Now on the side where the two dots are theres a plastic piece there and it just pops off by grabbing the top and bottom and pulling. A helpful hint is to lower your steering all the way down to give you the most room possible.
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2) Now that all the screws were out just pull the black frame forward and rotate it counter clock wise so you can take out the three plugs or two plugs if your a 1gb. Now when putting it back you can mess them up because there all different plugs.
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3) Now that you have that there are four screws in the gauge cluster to undo and then you just pull the gauge cluster out.
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4) Now you have to do the tricky part. There are a bunch of clips you have to take off. The clear ones are for the clear plastic and the black are for the black cover. Take off the clear plastic. Now the trick is to work your way around the cluster so you don't break any of the tabs off and to keep spreading the plastic apart so the tabs don't re-clip back on. Next do the same thing with the black tabs and work your way around.
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5) Now that you have that off you can start undoing the screws for the gauges. now for a trick mark your gauges where the needles are at or you'll have to redo everything again and its a pain to do.
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6) Next take the needle of with a very small set of needle nose pliers and just push it off be putting the pliers under the needle and just pry it up. Then take a screw driver and undo the two black screws and pull the gauge apart.
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7) Now the modifying part. You take the back of the gauge and take some sand paper and sand it down to the regular plastic and take all that covering off.
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8) Now after doing that hers the difference in the light.
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9) Now do that to all your gauges and put them back in and then put the black plastic on but leave the clear plastic off. Now put it back into the car and start your car and make sure you put all the needles back in the same place. If you didn't just pop them back off and put them where there suppose to be. Im mainly talking about the temp, oil, and gas gauges. The rpm and the speed are normally fine if you put them back in the same spot. Now that everything is correct put the plastic cover on and start to put every thing back now remember on the frame to plug in the 3 plugs and the rotate it clockwise now and put the screws back in.
NOW HERES THE FINAL PRODUCT
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It may seem to be orange still but thats because of the pix and I didn't sand it very good. But it really works. Than you can go get leds and put them in and it will be very white.
If you guys have any questions just post it or pm me.
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. I love them i had it in blue looked real nice
