Well, with the crappy lighting that the dash has for the guage cluster I decided to update it to be brighter and a color theme to match the Deep. I give credit to Gunny's GXP for the find. I expressed to my son what I wanted for my birthday and he got me the white face place with blue lettering and upgraded white LED kit from blackcatcustom dot com.
Sorry, some of pics are a little blurry, I didn't notice until after I had completed the install.
I started by removing the chrome ring and then pulling the black tunnel, I thought I could remove the 4 screws to the guage cluster and pull it through the hole but I couldn't reach the back to disconnect the plug.
So I had to pull up the surrounding dash and of course to do that I had to pull the passenger O-Shi% grip and shift boot/shifter. Once that was off I was able to pull the dash up the dash surround. I only disconnected the 12v outlet and then supported the dash up to the latch for the convertible.
I then removed and disassembled on the top covers of the guage cluster, I reinstalled the power connection and as I turned on the car (without starting it) while counting the seconds it takes for the guage needles to stop moving (write this time down, you will need that to install the needles) and then marked the location of the needles. Then I removed the guage and opened it up the rest of the way on the table.
To take of the needles, you carefully turn them counter-clockwise while lifting and set them aside.
The circuit car on the right has three white areas where I de-soldered the LEDS in the center of each and added the brighter LEDs according to their instructions. I plugged it in to the car to verify the LEDs worked. I ended up having to reverse the fuel guage LED wires as the polarity is opposite of the tach and speedo.
I re-assembled the guage to the point you see below and plugged it back into the car and turned the key forward to the on position without starting. Counting the seconds from before. Then installed the needles by carefully pressing firmly down. The tach and speedo needle were at 0 and the fuel guage was about 1/4. I then disconneted and went back inside to finish re-assembly.
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I finished re-assembling the guage and installed it reversing the rest of the removal process.
Here is the final installed picture.
I rate this on a scale of 1-5, a 3. The soldering of the LEDs can be tricky in you are a novice and don't have a good gun. My son brought home his soldering station from work. The dash and such are fairly easy, as well as the dis-assembly of the guages.
This project took 1.5 hours
I may take the needles back off and change the color of them. The bottom of each needle is white. I'll probably scrape that off and then apply a blue color so during the day the needles will standout better.