Taking speedometer needle out

["Whitey Ford"]

How do you take the speedometer needle off the gauge? Im rebuilding my clusters and i think the needle spun off cause its not sitting at 0 mph anymore. Now it falls just straight South.

It may be OK since i haven't driven it to see if it does work but in case it doesn't I rather do it before i put everything back together.

[ICEMAN6166]

the needle is pressed on the shaft

i took one off once to paint, they are very thin and bend easily

you can test it by spinning the cable with a drill motor

["Whitey Ford"]

OK. yeah i was painting mine while itwas on and cleaning the cluster face then when the needle returned it was pointing straight down. Wondering if i messed something up

[Leeroy]

I'm not looking at mine, but isn't there a little stop it usually sits against for zero?

["Whitey Ford"]

Hate to bring this up again but how does the needle stop at zero? Once im going the needle stays nice and steady but not sure if the mph is correct now. Its damn near straight down but if i start moving its moving but i know its off at 0-20 or so.

[unibody madness]

You can correct it by spinning it all the way around until you make up the difference either at the stop or by holding the back of the shaft and spinning it back to zero.