Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard
Posted by Charles On 2010/12/22 22:57:28
12-22-10
Since I have the instrument cluster out, I thought I would disassemble it and clean the inside to make it look as good as I could. There is a lot of rust dots around the chrome rings circling the instruments. I took some polishing compound to it. The chrome really started to shine, but the rust did not budge.
Removed the gauges from the cluster and then the screws surrounding the back assembly. Removed that and the 4 screws that hold the gas/temp/bat/oil light faces and took that off. Left me with 3 empty lenses.
There is a scratch on the speedo trim ring also. Someone must have removed that at one time too. Did they roll back the odometer? I don't think so because there are some old oil change stickers on the door jam that show lower miles back in the late '60's. I would think that most of the miles would have been put on the car when it was newer rather than later.
I'll continue to work at the rust with the polishing compound. Hopefully I'll get rid of most of it and make it look better. Then I'll clean everything with Windex and dry it before reassembly.
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Since I have the instrument cluster out, I thought I would disassemble it and clean the inside to make it look as good as I could. There is a lot of rust dots around the chrome rings circling the instruments. I took some polishing compound to it. The chrome really started to shine, but the rust did not budge.
Removed the gauges from the cluster and then the screws surrounding the back assembly. Removed that and the 4 screws that hold the gas/temp/bat/oil light faces and took that off. Left me with 3 empty lenses.
There is a scratch on the speedo trim ring also. Someone must have removed that at one time too. Did they roll back the odometer? I don't think so because there are some old oil change stickers on the door jam that show lower miles back in the late '60's. I would think that most of the miles would have been put on the car when it was newer rather than later.
I'll continue to work at the rust with the polishing compound. Hopefully I'll get rid of most of it and make it look better. Then I'll clean everything with Windex and dry it before reassembly.
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