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Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

You may not even realize it but your guages may be a little faded or maybe just lost their satin depth.  A few hours spent on your guage cluster makes a huge difference.  It takes some patience but the final result is well worth it.  I used low-gloss Armorall to return these guages and bezel to a rich satin black.  While you are at it, you can bench test your bulbs and clean each one for even bright lighting.

Be careful and minimize rubbing the white lettering on the buttstuffog bezel and the green "unleaded fuel only" lettering on the digital bezels...unless you want to rub the color off.  You can let the Armorall sort of 'pool' around the white 'oil' 'temp' , etc on the buttstuffog bezel and just use a Q-tip to blot the excess up from the white letters.  The green letters - just take a Q-tip wet with Armorall and just lightly blot the letters so they don't smear...unless you want to get rid of them altogether.
"lol.. because not too many people care for that style of car"
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Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #1 –
Those look awesome nice work not to discreidt you work but i am going to get some white face gauges covers to go over mine would that be a easy fix to the probelm?
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http://www.cardomain.com/id/Carpimp1987
1987 T-Bird AEROBIRD-GT had many many mods but is now totaled and is the car that made me want to start customizing everything all over again.
1988 T-Bird 5.0 HO DD/Sleeper/next project car :birdsmily:
1988 Cougar XR7 5.0 HO Vortech Supercharged being bulit right now :cougarsmily:

Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #2 –
HOLY !  That's amazing.  nice work!
1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
'89 5.0 w/ ported intakes, Mallory Adjustable FPR, BBK shorties and H with 2.5" Flows, 130 amp 3G, 89 Mustang comp/wiring, Aluminum radiator w/ elec fan, T5 trans, King Cobra clutch, 3.55 gears, 13" Cobra brakes (front), Wilwood prop valve, Mustang A-arms, Front Coil-overs, MM CC plates, Silver 17x9 R's, 03 Cobra IRS, Aluminum DS, 2002 Mustang dash/console etc..., custom leather seats

Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #3 –
I like the idea,but,I wonder how long the treatment to the gauges will last.I like the "new" appearance a lot,but don't want to have to take the gauge cluster out every time I clean the interior.Let me know how long the gauges stay looking great....which they do,good work.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Carpimp1987;225118
Those look awesome nice work not to discreidt you work but i am going to get some white face gauges covers to go over mine would that be a easy fix to the probelm?


That has nothing to do with this thread.

Quote from: vinnietbird;225126
I like the idea,but,I wonder how long the treatment to the gauges will last.I like the "new" appearance a lot,but don't want to have to take the gauge cluster out every time I clean the interior.Let me know how long the gauges stay looking great....which they do,good work.


I did the base cluster in my '85 a year ago and it still looks good.  I did only one buttstuffog guage in another car several years ago and it is still richer than the others.
"lol.. because not too many people care for that style of car"
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Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #5 –
Well then,I may just try it out.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #6 –
Are you concerned about using armourall?  I am concerned about this, after I had the legendary armourall on my dash for years, and I watched it start to crack.  After I switched to Areospace Protectant ( can't remember which brand) it stopped the cracking completely.

Do you think there may be long term issues with armour-all on the guage faces?
88 TC, Lots of Mods.

Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #7 –
Quote from: Birdman;225438
Are you concerned about using armourall?  I am concerned about this, after I had the legendary armourall on my dash for years, and I watched it start to crack.  After I switched to Areospace Protectant ( can't remember which brand) it stopped the cracking completely.

Do you think there may be long term issues with armour-all on the guage faces?


Uh, if I was concerned, I wouldn't have used it.
"lol.. because not too many people care for that style of car"
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Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #8 –
As far as Armourall goes,With or without it,our dashes crack.I think the fact that they are all over 20 years old has more of an effect on cracks than the dash treatment itself.I don't think it'll cause our gauges to crack.LOL.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..
 

Your guages might be faded and you don't realize it

Reply #9 –
Sorry about that looks good and i don't know much about the buttstuffog gauges since i have had 2 cars with digital dash untill my cougar i just got and its still at the shop and i never pay much attention to it.
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http://www.cardomain.com/id/Carpimp1987
1987 T-Bird AEROBIRD-GT had many many mods but is now totaled and is the car that made me want to start customizing everything all over again.
1988 T-Bird 5.0 HO DD/Sleeper/next project car :birdsmily:
1988 Cougar XR7 5.0 HO Vortech Supercharged being bulit right now :cougarsmily: