Re: IML: 1963 Imperial dash-lighting/guages

[Alex Ferch <alxf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A steady hand and a lot of patience will allow you to re-attach those 
tiny Litz wires on the gauge pointers. You can rebuild the power pack 
yourself also. I put a new cap in mine and it works perfectly. You may 
as well take this opportunity to repaint the gauge pointers as well 
since you are already in there. If you prefer not to do the work 
yourself, you can send all your instruments and power pack to 
jcauto.com. You can check out their site for pricing and instructions. I 
have not used them, but others on the list may have comments. Hope this 
helps! Alex-63 Crown

kandkoyen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I took my instrument-panel out yesterday to replace the chrome 
> surround with a nicer one, and removed a couple of the guages to see 
> what one or two of you folks were talking about a while back with 
> reference to the human-hair-like wire that allows the pointer to 
> light, and sure enough, mine were no longer connected to the 
> needles. does anyone know of  some one who can and/or will repair 
> these? I also think I remember someone mentioning that someone 
> re-builds the power-packs for the electroluminescent system
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Kristian Oyen
> 1963 Imperial 4-door Southampton
> 1966 Imperial 4-door Crown
> 1967 Imperial Crown Coupe
> 1977 New Yorker Brougham 4-door
>
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