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Subject:Re: [WetWesties] Blackbeard Comes Home! (With questions)
From:Mike Collum
Date:Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:58:42 -0500

Matt Drew wrote:
> Speedo thing . . .
> Immediately to the right of the steering wheel is the speedometer and fuel
> gauge/indicator.
> There's a piece of clear plastic in front of it that slants forward from
> bottom to top.
> It's cracked and it bugs me.
> I want to fix it, but I've not heard of any way to fix it that doesn't
> require completely replacing the odo/tach/speedo/fuel instrument cluster.
> It would seem at first glance that it's a simple "pop the old piece of
> plastic out and pop a new one in" - but everything I've seen indicates that
> this is not possible.

I once dropped an instrument cluster and one of those slanted clear
plastic windows popped right out without breaking.

Mike