You gotta make sure you mark everything. And put everything back exactly how it was.
I removed all the stuff on 90's cluster. I did a no-no and cleared my mileage down to 000000.
But I put everything back on, and it worked great for me.

 

000000 no thats not noticeable.....(if ya do it look up the carfax on last reported miles) then go a little above it...

 

I guess my valid point about your link's credibility (http://www.ehow.com/how_5072556_inst...nda-civic.html) doesn't matter. Refer to post #11.

I guess I didn't help him by telling him what I knew about installing them in post #2. Also, if he googled it, you, me, or anyone else wouldn't have had to read the thread. He's lucky we aren't commenting on the fact he didn't look himself first since they seem to be littered through the internet.

Oh yea, here's some other install links that WON'T make you check if the headlights and cluster lights work without the battery being connected first.

http://www.autoaccessorystore.com/in...struction.html
http://www.team-integra.net/sections...p?ArticleID=97 (read through picture or step #8)
http://www.club3g.com/forum/show/818...glo-gauge.html

His cluster is extremely easy to just slide the indiglos over the needles. He has one needle in each section of his hatchbacks cluster(eng. temp/speedo/gas).

 

Well what i'm wondering is whether or not the hole in the center of the gauge face is bigger or smaller than the round part at the base of the needle. If the hole is smaller then the needles definitely need to be removed. If it's bigger, then you would have slightly some of the OEM gauge face showing around the base of the needle, which IMO would look bad, so I assume that they don't make it with hole bigger than the base of the needle.

 

No, it doesn't matter. You make it seem like the whole thing is wrong because of the order he chose to write it. Maybe, just maybe the guy figured whomever read it would be smart enough to temporarily connect the battery to test the lights. But I guess since he wrote it wrong, the person doing this install would just sit in his car for hours going 'why aint this workin'.

And post #2 is laughable. No real help. You just stated that they are not OEM, and that it should be easy.Vague. The guy is asking how to do the whole thing, and you just tell him that it should be easy to slide on. How about the rest of the install?

And as for you statement of ' had he googled it' - if 90% of the people on here googled their questions, we wouldn't have to read them! 90% of the crap on this site are covered on other sites. They are able to be found on google. But we post them anyways because we prefer to hear what the people we trust say. Hear what our fellow forum member think, and to hear what NOT to do.
If he googled it like I did, he would have simply done the install that the page I fell across said. He would have gotten no feed back on the fact that he does not need to, nor should not remove the needles.

 

You absolutely DO NOT take off the needles, it screws the gauges up, you break them, and if you do get them off and put them back on they don't even work sometimes.
I have had a set of these and you slip them on, not take the needles off.
I had to buy a whole new gauge cluster due to me taking the needles off.
You keep the OEM ones on because it gives it a backing cause they're floppy, the whole in the middle is big so you can slip them on.
If they wanted you to take the needles off they'd make a smaller hole and make them solid, so you had to get rid of the oem pieces.

 

thats exactly what i was looking for thank you very much. So pretty much all you do is slide them over the stock clusters and not touch or remove the needles got it.

 

^ i said the same thing in my post .........

 

Don't worry 94hatch I give you all the credit in the world you are one of the smarter dudes on here and know everything!

 

like i siad b4 i broke my gas guage needle...in the directions that came with my guages it specifically said NOT to remove the needles. of course had i read the directions FIRST, i would have not attempted to remove them.