Chevy C10 Cluster Restore - Needles Nicely Renewed

Then dip the brush and go.

If you load the brush with the right amount of paint, once you touch it to the needle it will produce a little blob you can just drag down. From experience, using a brush works better than applying thin layers of spray paint.

One other place that needs a little attention is the temp gauge's hot area.

If you look really close, you can see the area you need to paint. Simply mask it off and paint away.

We could simply paint the needle on the speedometer and call it a day, but then we'd always be looking at dirty odometer numbers.

The only way to get to all the numbers on the odometer is to take off the needle and face.

Once we had the face off, it was easy to wipe down the numbers. Be careful handling the instrument. We dropped ours; it basically exploded. Luckily, nothing broke, it just came apart. So we reassembled the odometer.

This component separates the gauges from the plastic face and hides all the ugly stuff on the bottom of the gauge needles. Again, all you need is a good wipe down, but if yours is bad, scuff it and spray it with semi gloss black.

Now it's time to get the little scratches out of the plastic lens. Start with a pre-clean in the sink. Doing so will prevent you from scratching it again while you are trying to polish the lens.