ilghap Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Sorry for this really easy question but I need to know kinda quicky.My friend is going to work on my speedo tomorrow and I need to know before 11am tomorrow.I need to remove both rev and speed needles off the clocks so I can get the backing plastic (with the numbers, speed, rev) out.It's for my 2006 toyota bBI know it's not a common car and prob no one has worked on one before..... but I was hoping most newer toyota will have a simular sort of layout and was put together in a simular way.So has anyone worked on a newer toyota?I don't want to pull hard incase I snap or break something.Getting a new clock will cost alot for meThanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WallaceGlanza Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 A fork works well to prise them off on the glanza needles, you can do it nice and gently. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kbond Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Alot of cars the needles are pushed on so getting a screw driver or something either side and try and gentle pull them off Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daniel_g Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Long nose pliers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ilghap Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 OK. I found a tip (on a daihatsu site which shares a simular, if not the same speedo as the bB) and the chap said I need to pull them striaght up HARD. he said ''the needles are only stuck onto the pin / shaft. But very strong''he also said''I constructed a tool:I took a pair of tweezers and bent the endings so I got two L-shapedendings facing towards each other touching each other without the needto squeeze the tweezers.With this I got under the black part of the needles near the shaft and pulled themoff straight upwards.Be sure to pull in the direction facing off the motherboard.It won't be easy but when you are carefull and pulling quite hard inthe right direction you won't break anything.'' does this sound right? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WallaceGlanza Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Honestly a fork works perfectly, slip the prongs between the shaft of the needle and just rock it back, it'll prise them off very gently and won't damage the face of the dials. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ilghap Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 Honestly a fork works perfectly, slip the prongs between the shaft of the needle and just rock it back, it'll prise them off very gently and won't damage the face of the dials.That is actually a very good idea..... but managed to get my modeling long nose tweezers in there and pulled the badboy out.Thanks chaps for the advice:) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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