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I would like to see if anyone knows how the seatbelt/check engine and the Low fuel/battery lenses are secured to the instrument center cluster? The lenses do not show any signs of an adhesive or imprints of any kind of them being pressed in place, which is my best guess that they are just pressed against the console and the instrument housing. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Lets try it with a couple of pictures... I need this information too.
He was asking about the lenses in the center panel in between the two dash pads . What you are showing is your fiber optics used on the early C3's. But to answer his question , they are not glued in . They just push into position when the bezel is separated . Not a hard job . I just replaced them in my 72 last summer.
The gauge cluster warning lamp lenses sit in a recess in the back of the gauge cluster, and get held in place by a tubular bulb shade/lens retainer. When the gauge pod is attached to the back of the gauge cluster, the shade/retainer is sandwiched between the cluster and the gauge pod, securing the lens in the cluster.
The shade/retainers were made out of both plastic and cardboard, and sometimes where white and sometimes pale blue. The cardboard ones are hard to find, since they have not held up too well after 40 years.
The pictures below are of a 68-76 gauge cluster, but the lenses are held into the plastic 81 center gauge cluster, the exact same way.
Last edited by gbvette62; Apr 11, 2017 at 08:26 AM.
Warning light lenses
