I like to call this my Discovery Page!
You guy's all know how hard it is to maintain the beautiful wheels we have,especially when the previous owner neglected them to waste!
Dang did I find the pot of gold!!
This product is sold @ Canadian Tire stores and its just out of this world.No more spending hours rubbing scrubbing and swearing at the end result being so so to say the least.
Oh one more little thing.You might want to wear rubber gloves for those with sensitive skin.
So How do you like them apples!
The before and after look is coming up.
Check out the new instruments!
Well I've been putting this off for so long now that I decided to go ahead with this little project.
After so many years you notice that your dash board gauges are kinda fading ,so here goes anything!
Wow what a difference!!
Very easy project and allot of fun too!
This little project was done on both of our automobiles....300SD (126) and 300D 1983(123).
Out of a coat hanger I made myself two hooks that I bended at 90 degree and grind the ends off.
Enter a hook on each side of the dash bezel,make sure your hook is entering in a upwards position.
Turn both hooks towards the center of the dash and gently pull towards you,it might need some convincing,so go ahead and pull
Ok the left side is out..now the other side.
Now you need to disconnect the few light bulbs, harness,speedometer cable and oil line.Don't worry about oil leaking,it wont happen.
Now that everything is disconnected,bring you dash bezel to your work bench and lets start disassembling the whole thing.
There are 8 screws like this that you need to remove.
First off the tachometer.
Then the speedometer.
And last but not least the oil,gas and temperature gauge.
Bought myself a small container of fluorescent orange color at my local hobby store with a 00 size brush.
Take a piece of paper and place it under the needles that need painting.
Make sure before you start painting to clean the needles with rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab so that the paint adheres well.
I applied two coats of paint,let the first one dry for 10 minutes or so then hit the next coat.
First coat.
Done!
Time to reassemble.
Start with the last gauge out so on so forth...
Fuel oil and temperature gauge,then speedometer,and last your tachometer.
Fuel oil and temperature gauge,then speedometer,and last your tachometer.
Thats not too bad...isn't it?
Has this happen to you yet?
The interior door handle bezel cracked.
Here yo
u can see the cracked bezel around the inside door handle.
New bezel and plastic insert.Pretty expensive stuff if you ask me!....
With a small flat head screw driver pry out the plastic bezel,if your going to keep that one use caution not to scratch.
Remove the small Phillips screw holding the bezel in place.
Now remove the large Phillips screw holding the arm rest handle
Once the old bezel is removed,simply pull it out of the arm rest handle and slide in the new one.
Pull on the door handle and the same time holding the bezel back so that you can put your Phillips screw back in place.
