Painted my cluster

[dragracer969]

Got this done Saturday.
Only issues are I didn't get the temp gauge needle back on right so its a little off and the speedo reads 10mph too fast.
I couldn't figure out how to set the needle so I just put it against the peg at idle and called it good.

Let me know what you guys think

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[backroad101]

How did you paint it? What did you use? Give us more details.

Also, when i did my bulbs, I put the speedo needle on under the peg the gently lifted it over the peg while installed. Tried a couple times while testing with my Garmin GPS and a drive around the block (if you can do this part with a helper it would be much easier).

 

[dragracer969]

Well I did the A/C controls first but they didnt turn out nearly as good so I've gotta do them again.

I started with some sandpaper on the A/C controls from a write up I saw on RPS and then my buddy suggested using my knife to scrape the color off, that turned out to work a lot easier.

I got out some razor blades for the gauges and it was basically like a lottery scratcher ticket. I went slow and just scraped off the parts I wanted to be blue and stopped every now and then to hold it to a light to see if I missed anything. I got some stained glass spray paint from a hobby store and after it was all scraped off I tried to paint it.

The paint didnt lay out like I wanted so I took some 220 grit sandpaper and scuffed up everything and then resprayed it until it was as dark as I wanted. Then after the paint dried I put it all back together.

 

[DLABdan]

Could you post a day photo for comparison? Thinking about doing this to my '05

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

Looks good, I remember there's a How to for correcting the speedo on the tech library, it was posted by fx4wannabe. U need to take it out and u just need a AA battery for it.