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Old 07-22-2009, 08:26 PM   #62
JEM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SF Bay Area, CA
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Re: Modding My Cluster

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Originally Posted by BLE 'BURBAN View Post
By all means lets see your work!!
Here's the end result, no in-progress pix and I didn't feel like tearing it back apart right now:

I managed to break the gas-gauge needle, salvaged one from another gauge but it's just sitting loose right now until I can test empty-full positions with the sender:



The 22awg jumpers that run from the gas-gauge terminals to the new gauge location are soldered to the copper traces in the printed circuit, that's all covered with tape. I put a 3-pin .062 Molex plug in the circuit; if I were doing it over again I might just have made the wires long enough that the gauge could be pulled out and the wires unscrewed from the terminals on the gauge:






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