530planeman

I am restoring a 68 and the usual instrument cluster housing is broke at the two small points anyone have a suggestion ?
Thanks in advance
Wes

wombvette

New one.

rcread

That's what I did. You could probably find someone to braise the old one but the new ones seem to be pretty good quality.

0Willcox Corvette

Well considering the expense of a new one.. if you can live with the breaks (and they usually don't show up too bad)... I'd run a jumper wire from the wiper switch mounting screw to one of the screws that holds the five small gauges to the bezel.

The wiper switch must be grounded for the wipers to work. If the bezel is broke, you'll lose this ground in most cases... The ground for the switch pass's thru the bezel to the ground for the temperature gauge. The by-pass is run a jumper wire.

IMHO,

Willcox

Bluebuyu

Try this link. Second post
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-g...guage-pod.html

Alan 71

Hi,
I've repaired several bezels using a similar method to the one shown in blue's link.
The patch doesn't need to maintain the deep 'v' shape, it can be much deeper. It just can't be any thicker than the metal at that point.
That narrow 'v' at that point was for the safety consideration and thus results in the weak point in the bezel.
Regards,
Alan