New bulbs for my needles in the gauge cluster Options

[AnaXyd]

Hey!

I have ordered one of the plasma disc gauges to my T20:

(With white color)


And, in order to make my gauges perfect, I think I need to replace the ugly green color on the needles. Which bulb are these? 74, 168 or something else?


What color on the needles will be best with the white gauges?



Any answer will be greatly appreciated! You will get pictures when the discs are in place!

[AnaXyd]

Hey! The plasma discs have arrived!

I got my guages at my workbench, but is afraid to damage it when removing the needles. Somebody have any idea here? To safely remove the needles, and get them reassemblied correct. I dont want them to show the wrong numbers..

[k-weaver]

Hey! The plasma discs have arrived!

I got my guages at my workbench, but is afraid to damage it when removing the needles. Somebody have any idea here? To safely remove the needles, and get them reassemblied correct. I dont want them to show the wrong numbers..

I'm not sure on exactly how to do this, but I can tell you from experience the needles pop right off. It may take a liitle pressure and you have to be easy with them so that they don't break but they will come off.

The problem is getting them back on, for example -

1.) If you take off the gas gadge needle, you have to put it back on at the same angle you took it off at, otherwise it won't tell you accurately how much gas you have. I know this first hand because I took mine off and guessed at where it was at. Now when I fill up the needle only goes a bit passed 3/4 tank. This is the same for the temp needle.

2.) The speedo needle will be the tricky one. If you look at your gadges there is that little black thing that keeps the needle from going below 0, when you take the needle off, the thing that spins the needle will go down below zero. This means when you put the needle back on at zero and start the car, the needle will jump up to a speed (mine was 40MPh).

3.) I'm not sure what to tell you on the RPM needle, I guess I got lucky on that one. I did take it off but when I put it back on it seemed fine.

Here is what I did to correct my speedo issue -

I remembered from the past that at about 3k RPM in 5th gear I would be at about 60MPh or so. So I put the gauges back in the car without the plastic cover, I got up to 3k RPM, turned the cruise control on and drove by one of those signs that says "your speed is xx". Lucky for me it said I was doing exactly 60MPh. So while driving I carefully put the needle back on and pointed it at 60MPh. Haven't had a problem since....

One last thing. When I got my gauges, the instuctions said that they are meant to slip right over the stock ones, no need to take these off. This wasn't true. I tried it like this and when the speedo started to move it got stuck on the new gauge. Reason for this was because it was too thick with the old one behind it. I had to take out the old ones completely and put the new ones in their place.