Hey
@my68barracuda I used a soldering gun to soften the plastic blobs around the gauge cages and picked up a rod of plastic at a craft store to reinstall. I literally lit the plastic on fire and pressed the molten plastic on top of the old post. Nice and tight and looks surprisingly factory(ish). Picture
HERE I'll be honest, I've never
seen anyone do it this way before, and it took balls-O-steel to get the process started, but ended up being very easy.
I repainted my dash, and it came out Okay,
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTAdGCRlfPv/ There are some pics of the process and paints I used on my Instagram board, you don't have to have an Instagram account to see them - they might help (then again, maybe not).