1979 Tach Cluster refinished.

[1BadSS]

Picked up a tach cluster out of a 79 Silverado about a month ago. Got it with a fogged lens, broken circuit and a missing shift indicator.



Picked up a new lens from LMC. Located a NOS printed circuit and with some elbow grease, some new paint. I have a 90% gauge cluster now. I'm calling it 90% due to the two broken mounting ears. They still work, just missing a small portion of each. Also repainted the center shield, back to black. I saw someone paint one with a silver paint before. Possibly for reflective properties, after looking at it though. I decided against it, because it would look like the gauges had silver rings behind the bezel.



When painting the needles, I brush painted them with a paint called 'fluorescent red', which came up close enough to the factory pointer color that i've seen so far. The factory needles don't like to be painted. I scuffed them, primed and laid paint and had to put down 5 coats for equal coverage.

So far, about $90 in this gauge cluster with the brand new parts. I'll gladly take this over a camaro tach any day. As it looks perfect in the truck and doesn't look out of place. I've got two others to refinish that you may see on here soon.