Dont take off Needles!
Hey Its 8/22/02 i just got done taking my needles out all i have to say is DONT! I did this and well after removing the tach i thought it was all pretty easy then the Speedo was quite hard, well the reason is is beacuse theres a small copperlike foil that attaches to the Odometer and it dosent go back in, so then I thought ok im just going to put everything back together and then see if it works ( i didnt take off fuel and temp guage needles). Then after putting the needles back in and reattaching the cluster I started my car and saw that my Tach did not work and to my amazement niether di my speedo ( sarcasim, i was qutie pissed) the i found out that the black cover on the needles comes of and what your supposed to do is take off those covers and slip the needle through the middle hole in the guages, then simply put the cover back on and it works out great. So anyway tomorrow Im taking a trip to the local juck yard and getting a new instrument cluster for about 60 dolars. It sucks but i now Know how to do it correctly. I hope this helps you.