Dash Cluster

I tapped the plastic in front of the fuel gauge and it shot right to empty ,I believe the gauge is shot and I have a spare one,not looking forward to takeing the dash apart.LOL Thanks everyone
You'll find that the nuts that attach gauge studs to circuit board are stamped tin speedy nuts. This is because the studs are swedged into a fiber board. Weak nut on a weak stud. I've seen these studs so rusted that a real fine thread nut probably would have cracked the board before backing off.
Anyway... The fiber boards distort with age and gauge weight over the 50+ years, the nuts become loose, connection to circuit board becomes intermittent.