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Blazerless:-(
Join Date: Jun 2003
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I painted the needles and got a new bezel. Cleaned it up and new light bulbs- Looks brand new!!! Just a little elbow grease is the best medicine for these ol' boys!
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more pics,
more pics, more pics. (chanting)
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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If you have it apart again, paint all that funky green with white wall mart spray paint. It'll look 10 times better at night when you turn on the lights.
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He's got mean nasty FANGS!
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The painted white insides looks great, here's proof
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That IS cool.
Much brighter backlighting.
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Blazerless:-(
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So you paint the inside where all the gauges sit? It is right now a weird faded lime green and you painted it white? What kind of white?? Florescent?? Thanks for the imput sounds like a great idea....brighter at night would be cool!
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Just any ole white spray paint you have laying around. I prefer flat white, but I have no proof that it works better.
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Low & Slow
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oklahoma
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WOW! Ok... i'm going to paint mine white right now! lol
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Where's my beer?
Join Date: Aug 2002
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That night shot looks awesome Josh!
Oh wait, where's the wheel?? ![]() I'm painting mine white also. ![]()
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He's got mean nasty FANGS!
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I used gloss white, the flat white seems to have the same affects. Here's the installed shot with my ugly wheel
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Blazin- nice steering column too.
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Drive it like U stole it
Join Date: Mar 2000
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What kind of paint did you use on the needles?
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He's got mean nasty FANGS!
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I used Testers Flourescent Orange, it's a bit more orangish than the stock color which is an orange with a bit of red in it.
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Blazerless:-(
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Me too!!
I used florescent orange spray paint and it was also a little brighter orange, but it looks good if you do them all so they match, I just did the top two.
Randy- you like my steering column- You can't really tell in these pictures, but I was pretty excited that the blue in the center cap matches my truck color exactly !!! Last edited by 1970blazin; 08-19-2003 at 11:33 PM. |
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is that a bench test you did if so how did you do it i would like to do the same before i install mine.
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He's got mean nasty FANGS!
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In the first pic I posted, what I did was used a coudple of jumper wires, and a ELT battery pack off an airplane (used to work as an aircraft mech, had a few laying around), and hooked up the light circuits to test it with the white and diff color bulbs ot decide what I liked best, and to verify the printed circuit on the replacement cluster was workign properly. I ended up going with red backlighting, but cant get a good picture of it.
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Drive it like U stole it
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this tester paint is modle car paint but did you use a spray , marker or a brush?
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He's got mean nasty FANGS!
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I used a brush, I redid that entire cluster for around $15, including buying it for $10.
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Blazerless:-(
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Hijack away josh
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its all about the +6 inches
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Besides...who is gonna tell the boss man to get off my thread?
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#21 |
He's got mean nasty FANGS!
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LOL, I hate to break ny own ettiquette of hijackin threads.... so uh, oh well
I forgot to mention, the reason teh inner black metal piece looks greyish is I used a metallic black on it, I like the way it contrasts with the black painted bezel.
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My other Love
Join Date: Aug 2001
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you are all making me jealous, ah first things first get the 69 back on the road first
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huh?
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Speaking of hijacking threads, that dash cluster sure is nice Josh...it looks very familiar!!
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