Anyone have a suggestion how to pull needle off a Speedometer dial

I only saw your post today.
Some months ago I made up some tools for doing up instruments.
Needle puller below.
A short length of 20x20x2, a piece of M4 rod {had no bolt} and a sewing machine needle, ground down and pressed in.
The underside of the 20x20 is filed down to about 1,5 mm.
I guess the picture speaks for itself.

Here is a report on how the tach works given that I did not pull the needle but did lubricate it inside. (And cleaned the cloudy glass.)

I rode the bike today and the tach needle was PERFECT. It did not waver a bit like it did before

Lubrication I did was as follows:

1) I put the tach with dial facing down and filled the tach cable input hole right to the top of the threads with oil and let it seep down. Once in a while I would put a small flathead screwdriver in and turn the unput a few times to help the oil seep down. Then I would top it to the brim again. Did this for over a day

2) Then inside the tach, with the tach on its side, I dripped some oil down to where the input driven shaft comes inside the tach. It is not a problem to over lubricate this inside because, once installed on bike, any excess oil drips vertically down away from the dial.

I did not lubricate the needle assembly, mainly because there was no way to access it. But looks like it is doing fine without any lubrication

Dennis

This all begs the question in the original post regarding how to remove the indicator so as to replace the damaged faceplate.
Guess the faceplate isn’ that bad?

My original plan was that since I wanted the glass out to clean as it was fogged up, I
would open it up, pull off the needle indicator and lubricate.

Then a little brake clean slightly dissolved the small letters at bottom of dial.
I hoped to get a replacement but not easy so I decided to not pull the needle indicator
as dial is not really that bad. So I just lubed the mechanism without pulling the needle indicator.

I am really happy with the result as needle indicator does not waver any more.

I would suggest to all that the speedo and tach are easy to service, lube and restore
to non wavering needle indicator without pulling the needle indicator.

In addition, I would suggest that the installation of a new bezel is really easy and does
not really need any specilized tools or a rebuilder. I would say that bezel install and crimping
took me 10 minutes. The specialty tool required is a wood clamp!

Dennis
w=Who will now redo the speedo that is wavering despite a new cable.