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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Interior & Equipment => Instrumentation => Topic started by: bobcooter on July 29, 2011, 09:15:31 pm
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I can't afford it, but it's really cool!
http://www.classicdash.com/shopping/1973-87-Chevrolet-Truck-Complete-Black-6-Gauge-Panel-with-5-inch-Speedo-and-Tach-Autometer-Gauges.html?page=1
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Dakota Digital is supposed to be coming out with a new analog version and supposed to be priced at 798 from their website, but maybe cheaper here? I'm putting off my gauges a little while longer to see them. Latest I heard is sept/oct time frame.
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Spendy! But sexy!
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That dash is crap. I saw them at a booth at a car show, they are thinner than pillar gauge pod plastic, perhaps half as thin.
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You can buy the autometer guages and put them in your stock instrument panel. That would save you some money on that set up.
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i agree with you 69byrd. plus, thats an insane chunk of change wow
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Also if you do it yourself you can mount the guages from behind like the stock guages.
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Also if you do it yourself you can mount the guages from behind like the stock guages.
I did this with my gauges. I like the look of it, and it was fairly simple to do. I just had to cut out the metal cluster cover and threaded the gauge into it. At first I cut out the clear plastic that covers the gauges, but it eventually broke the clips that screw it down so I removed it. I did my brothers gauges like the cluster listed in this post, It was a bit more difficult, but it also looks good.
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Mine are mounted behind too. Your right it was not hard and it was a fun project too. Also you can sit them at an angle to where they are easier to see.
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I would like to see, some of yalls gauges that yall did.
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Pedigo, ill snap pics of mine an my brothers tonight. And when we pull apart our intetiors I will snap pics of how we did it
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Here ya go, I have put the billet dash piece on it now but dont have a pic with it on there. (http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr299/69byrd/truck005.jpg)
(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr299/69byrd/P6090528.jpg)
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Really nice.
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I really like the look of that. do you have any pics of the back, or of when you were doing it?
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Disregaurd my above post, haha i didnt read the post above your pictures. haha
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looks good man
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Here is how I did mine.
(http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/1979c20/2011-08-13194257.jpg)
I cut out the black metal piece to fit the gauges and use the mounting threaded ring that is included with the gauge to install it.
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Do you have a picture of it complete? Did you use the clear plastic as well, or just put the outer bezel on?
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Ill have to take a new one complete, I cant find my old one I used the clear plastic piece when I first did it, I had to cut out circles around the gauge so it would sit flush, but the plastic broke one of the times I was working on my dash.
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I just added in an a/t temp gauge in the clock spot. You can see the clock adjuster hole in the plastic still, but it blends very well with the oem gauges.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xGY8EgdlU0I/TlKYSFBUzuI/AAAAAAAAARY/Otl_ZwoBxC4/s800/IMG_3299.jpg)
I tried mounting it to the clock face plate, but that was too small. So I just used a scrap of sheet metal. I spend too much time trying to match the oem bend. I just a flat section with enough bend to get to the mount screws would be fine.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YA5BzuEr2wU/Tkhzr300JrI/AAAAAAAAAPw/PliagyjG9tI/s800/IMG_2881.jpg)
On my '81 they did away with the metal cover over the gauges and it is flexy plastic you couldn't mount anything to that.
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I like the looks of some of those aftermarket gauges, but what bothers me the most is the 8k or 10k rpm tachometers. I would only want something up to 5K rpm maybe, but it's not as common in some of the gauge series that I like.
I'm not knocking anyone else for using the higher rpm gauges, it's just a personal preference of mine that's all.
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I don't recall ever seeing a tach that only went to 5 grand.
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Other than 90's and early 2000 stock tachs, I haven't either.
I don't see a problem with an 8k tach or even 10k. A sbc has no problem making power to 7k with some love :)
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http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ATM-2697/
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Cool ;D
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Diesel tachs only go to 5 or 6, redline.
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Here ya go, I have put the billet dash piece on it now but dont have a pic with it on there. (http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr299/69byrd/truck005.jpg)
Now that's more like it! I hate the surface mount look. Looks cheap and tacked on. I'm not doing 'em unless I can recess them properly like you did. That is the way they're supposed to be. What was the exact size that you used for the RPM gauge?
If only I could afford this:
http://autometer.com/cat_gaugedetail.aspx?ref=search&gid=4237
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This is how you do it: http://73-87.com/7387garage/interior/gauges_recessed.htm
Jeff (bigblock73) will probably sell you brackets for this also.
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Those are the instructions that I used to do mine. Now that he has the brackets I am sure it is alot easier.
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Ok cool I'll use that guide.
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I should have a preliminary Dakota Setup here in a couple of weeks.