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White Faced gauges&nbsp;
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White faced instrument gauges, as are found on some other cars (such as
the Mustang Cobra and Maxima SE) can be purchased for the 90-95 SHOs from
<A HREF="http://www.nrauto.com">NR Auto</A> as well as SHO Shop.

<P>Thanks to Glenn Grimstad for the following installation notes :

<P>They were very straight forward to install but you will need TORX screwdrivers.
you can purchase a cheap set at K-MART . this is exactly what I did and
it was quite easy.
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Procedure</H2>

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Take off the bottom panel underneath the steering wheel</LI>

<LI>
Take off the dash panel (2 screws up top), headlight knob and nut under
headlight knob.</LI>

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Slide out the dash panel top first then bottom, it will take some coaxing
but it snaps out.</LI>

<LI>
Unhook the electrical connectorsin back of heater panel and swivel the
whole panel towards the door. ( there was a small wire on top of the headlamp
switch that I could not undo so I left it there).</LI>

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Take off clear lens.</LI>

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Take off black panel. (You do not need to take instument cluster out as
stated).</LI>

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Take out old black facias on the idiot panels by popping them out from
the rear the are glued on and install the idiot facias on pop out panels
(some trimming of white panels is required by using scissors. only about
1/16 of an inch off the edges).</LI>

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DO ONLY ONE GAUGE AT A TIME and take your time as to mapping out the position
of the needles. take out stop pins on speedo and tackometer and turn on
ignition without starting engine and map position of each needle, flick
them around a bit to find its center, I drew everything up on paper. take
off the needles carefully by prying on all corners of the needle to loosen,
then pop off directly towards you.</LI>

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Rip the old facia off and apply the new one by exposing the adhesive underneath
facia.</LI>

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Put on needle by turning on ignition to center gauge pin and then put back
on needle as per your drawing of were it was with ignition on. (scrape
off the white paint under needle and paint the bottom of it red or orange
to stand out on the white facia. the speedometer needle is the only one
that needed super careful mapping when you turned on the ignition it centered
off the gauge.</LI>

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Reinstall everything and you're done.</LI>
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The whole job took around 1 1/2 hours taking my time and its pretty easy.

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