In London and brought my car from OZ

[WheelerDealerOZ]

Hi there, I've recently moved from OZ and brought my 86 with me.

Am going to try and get it registered here and do some track stuff.

Need some advice on 'how to' do a bit of stuff as I grew up with Escorts and have no idea about the 86. Need to pull the dash out to change the speedo etc and I don't even know how to do that!! Must be easy but I don't want to break anything trying .......

[pack]

Hey man! Welcome here!

Try to check some videos! I've started to watch some videos and some projects on this forum aswell and try to understand what is the AE86.

Regards

[Bean]

Welcome, currently on holiday but can do a quick write up next week if necessary. Shouldn't take you more than 30min being careful.

[d3nso]

Welcome,

do you want to remove only the cluster to fix the speedo or do you really wnat the pull out the whole dash?

[banpei]

(09-02-2016 09:00 PM)d3nso Wrote:  Welcome,

do you want to remove only the cluster to fix the speedo or do you really wnat the pull out the whole dash?

I think he has to convert it from imperial (mph) to metric (km/h).
If that is what you want, the best option would be to find a used JDM dash (imported hachis galore in Australia, otherwise Auctions Yahoo can help you out) and that should bolt in place. (unless you want to install a digital dashboard)

[zenki]

Welcome.

Not joking but taking the whole dash out is easy. Did it 3 months ago, dash out/in in 1,5 hours.

[Bean]

The other way around, he's car is from OZ and therfore in kmh and as he's now in London he needs mph. But yes changing the whole cluster would be easiest. I'm sure he can source a UK cluster to swap in.

[WheelerDealerOZ]

I managed to get into it and take a couple of pics just in case it's a slight variant. I was thinking it would have to be some little trick to remove the controls on the sides ...... ??

[Bean]

Pull off the two turn dials, underneath each there's a plastic nut holding it in place. Looking from below you'll see screws (two or three) going into the dash top, remove them. At this point make sure your steering wheel is in the lowest position (lever on the bottom) and lift the cover slightly. Now you should have just enough room to disconnect the plugs of the switches next to the steering column. Now you can remove the cover (The vents will come off too, if I remember correctly). This will reveal five screws holding the cluster in place. Remove them and pull it out a little so you can disconnect the two plugs. Pull a bit further and remove the speedo cable. Outing the new one is just the revers of above.
Hope this helps and greetings from 430m below sea level

[WheelerDealerOZ]

Ok, so just pull them. Was thinking that was the go but they are pretty firm so I thought I would grab some advice before I found out that that wasn't the case and I broke them off .........