A simple job, probably no spanners in the Haynes I bet....

My 87 GT had the righthand light above the rev counter not working
from when I bought it.

Fixed up some niggles today after finally getting rid of the milkshake
stink in the passenger footwell...

Thought i'd change the bulb, two screws from the plastic shroud, one
from the clock panel and flip it down change the bulb and sorted...

Yeah likely.... think it said somewhere to remove the steering wheel
first, my arse I'm removing that just to change a bulb. Anyway got the
screws out but then how much movement is there in the binnacle
assembly ? Hardly any. I've not got big hands but I'm buggered if I
coud get a grip on the old bulb/holder. Didn't know it twisted to
come out until later either! Doh!
Managed to remove it with some sweating and swearing.
Put the replacement in, arse, the bulb fell out and into the
binnacle.... found another one in my bits box (off a scrapped
Scirocco) and put it in anyway.

Result, after 20 minutes of more fiddling before I figured out how the
binnacle locates on two pivots I'd not seen when I was ragging it
about to get my hand behind it earlier.

Lets light those instruments up ! - only neither works now,
everything else works still just not the two bulbs....

Anyone explain how to fix these without taking the dash off or
replacing the whole car or taping a mini maglite to the dash? ;-)

Mark S.

I know the feeling - I used to remove all the trim under the drivers side so
I could get my hand up and disconnect the speedo cable. Then it's a case of
twisting and rolling the instruments forward so they can come out the front.
I would replace all the bulbs as you can bet another one will blow soon!

--Steve


"Mark" wrote in message
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A simple job, probably no spanners in the Haynes I bet....

My 87 GT had the righthand light above the rev counter not working
from when I bought it.

Fixed up some niggles today after finally getting rid of the milkshake
stink in the passenger footwell...

Thought i'd change the bulb, two screws from the plastic shroud, one
from the clock panel and flip it down change the bulb and sorted...

Yeah likely.... think it said somewhere to remove the steering wheel
first, my arse I'm removing that just to change a bulb. Anyway got the
screws out but then how much movement is there in the binnacle
assembly ? Hardly any. I've not got big hands but I'm buggered if I
coud get a grip on the old bulb/holder. Didn't know it twisted to
come out until later either! Doh!
Managed to remove it with some sweating and swearing.
Put the replacement in, arse, the bulb fell out and into the
binnacle.... found another one in my bits box (off a scrapped
Scirocco) and put it in anyway.

Result, after 20 minutes of more fiddling before I figured out how the
binnacle locates on two pivots I'd not seen when I was ragging it
about to get my hand behind it earlier.

Lets light those instruments up ! - only neither works now,
everything else works still just not the two bulbs....

Anyone explain how to fix these without taking the dash off or
replacing the whole car or taping a mini maglite to the dash? ;-)

Mark S.