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Offline bobcooter

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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2011, 09:53:43 pm »
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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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2011, 10:29:37 pm »
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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2011, 01:23:38 am »
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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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2011, 09:51:38 am »
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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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2011, 11:49:13 am »
i agree with you 69byrd.   plus, thats an insane chunk of change wow

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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2011, 04:47:08 pm »
Also if you do it yourself you can mount the guages from behind like the stock guages.
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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2011, 04:51:23 pm »
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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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2011, 10:19:39 pm »
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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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2011, 05:55:38 pm »
I would like to see, some of yalls gauges that yall did.
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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2011, 08:40:24 pm »
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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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2011, 09:27:47 pm »
Here ya go, I have put the billet dash piece on it now but dont have a pic with it on there.                   

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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2011, 04:33:58 pm »
Really nice.
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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2011, 06:54:26 pm »
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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Re: New instrument cluster
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2011, 06:56:02 pm »
Disregaurd my above post, haha i didnt read the post above your pictures. haha
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