Sounds like JB-Weld time. Mine has more grey remold stuff than OEM Black.
                                            Neal
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Date:    Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:01:27 -0400
From:    David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Instrument cluster.

At 01:52 PM 6/12/2002, mike ingle wrote:
>I popped the dash,  the black plastic holding the clock assembly has become
>brittle and broken

Standard VW crappy hard plastic -- from that era at least.  Either their
molding engineers messed up the stress calculations for the screws, or the
stuff gets extra brittle, or both.

>allowing the clock to move back when I attempt to adjust
>it.  I held the clock from the back and adjusted.  So far it seems to keep
>time OK.

Good.  The clock in my '84 (before I shifted to a cluster with tach) was
the most accurate clock I've ever seen -- had a rate of maybe a second a
month.  I miss it (but not as much as I like the tach).

david

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'85 GL "Poor Relation"