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Jon, Kevin and Chris and the rest of SB Nation. Thanks for your help

I got some tubing, and rod and want to fix this this week. Got some rebuild gauge stuff from Orange Garage in the LA area (rubber seals, needle for speedo etc...)

I want to ask you all best way to do the brass tube splice. My broken needle pin is at the transition from 1/16" to 1/32". The brass bushing in the cross rod is just above the break and it's 1/32" diameter. I see that I have two options to splice

A: Cut down lower on the 1/16" rod a little and splice there and run 1/32" up into the small brass cap that fits into the potmetal speedo needle holder. This will mean the spindle little rod will be changed from 3/16" long currently at the break site to about 1/2" long. And I will have to glue or solder in the tiny 1/32" rod into the 1/16" tube splice

B: Use only 1/16" rod and do the same splice site but only use 1/16". With this - will need to drill out the cross bar brass bushing to 1/16" and the small cap which also gets drilled out 1/16"

Hopefully look at my drawings and LMK which idea is better. I realized that if I splice above the cross bar, I can never take it apart again (hopefully never happen)

Also, the little tiny brass cap on the top, just under the needle. How do I get this off? Any ideas.
Last Question, solder or JB weld/equivalent? Need it to work, not be sexy also be able to come apart....
Real last question, any misgivings on redoing the odometer #s. I have stickers but scared they will peel off as my truck is outside and gets hot in the Calif sun, or just clean them up with simple green and call it quits. I have the stickers from the Redo Stickers Guage kit still

Thanks all.

Clem