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Offline 87V20Kansan

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Guages
« on: May 19, 2014, 11:01:19 pm »
I know we have all seen Autometers in a Chevy dash. I have always liked them. I still like them! Sooooo.... Here are mine.

2 1/16" voltage, tranny temp, oil pressure, and water temp. 2 5/8" tach.

I didn't want the tach up on the dash, or hanging off of the  A pillar. Clamping it to the column just isn't my style either. That's the best place I could come up with. It's fairly easy to read too, believe it or not.

In messing with these today I was able to trim the bezel in such a manner that allowed to gauge to tilt up at me instead of pointing at my gentleman parts. Bonus!







Pardon the fit of the dash pad. I fixed that after these pics were taken.
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Offline bake74

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Re: Guages
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2014, 07:32:35 am »
     Looks nice, is the tach in the way of the light switch at all ?
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Offline timthescarrd

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Re: Guages
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2014, 08:59:22 am »
Those look great in there, but why is your tach at 1000 rpms with the truck off?
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Offline 87V20Kansan

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Re: Guages
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2014, 04:30:16 pm »
Not at all Bake. Switch is fully accessible.
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Offline 87V20Kansan

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Re: Guages
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2014, 04:32:43 pm »
That's the second Autometer tach I've had that does that Tim. I don't know why. It doesn't do it every time either.
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Offline cvbear

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Re: Guages
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2014, 08:16:03 pm »
my dash pad looks like that on the left of the instrument panel.  How did you fix the fit?
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