most definitely!! those little pieces of "cardboard" need to be there [where originally applied] to insulate the hot wires from the case, which is grounded by the mounting - use pieces of "boxboard" if nothing else [from the kleenex box you emptied when you learned the price of replacement gauges] grin

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot