Lol! Thanks for reminding me Art

almost forgot. Here is the first one. this shows the front and rear air gauge with the mount for the original bulb and socket

Next one shows the original (bottom), and the newer bulb and socket (top)

Cutting off the original mount at the bottom of the split, leaving around 3/16th of a lip, I epoxied 3/4" length of rubber ( to hold the new sockets in place) to the lip as shown in this next photo

The wiring is pretty straight forward, added male flat spade connectors to the new sockets and re-attach to the harness, I must mention that you can and should trim off any extra wire on the harness as to keep things tight and tidey (makes for sticking the panels back in the dash a little easier. Now I don't know about your particular gauges (age) but the glass itself on mine was dusty/dirty inside, and it shows real well with the gauge fully illuminated by the new brighter bulbs so I gingerly cut open each gauge a 1/4" back from the bezel as shown in the above photo ( one on the left) I used a hack saw to score a line around the gauge and finished the cut with sharp razor, cleaned the inside glass and re-assembled the two halfs using JB Weld. After painting the panels over in a non gloss black primer/paint spray paint to eliminate glare off of the plastic during the daytime as well as night time from the interior lighting. Also paint on the gauge bezels themselves were pretty faded, so after prepping the faces I painted those as well with metalic silver, and Viola! here are the results


And while you are at it a good inspection and cleaning of the terminals and replacement of any corroded connectors should be in order. Now I still have to finish re-engraving the panels to reveil the original gauge markings to give it that fresh new look! To be continued....
