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yeah, but i guess it is kinda a rarity....I have seen several big Chevys sitting around...guess I need to go look at them
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yea i'd take a look. i know everytime i go out to pick n pull i'll be looking in every truck just for the tach. now...
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are the tachs you neighbor has guaranteed to work?
I found a site online tachman.com I just emailed him to ask about mine, he immediately responded saying the circuit board is bad, he can replace it with a solid-state board with a 2 year warranty for $165 I asked him about a group rate.....
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![]() i'll ask but man i sure hope so for $100. so when you go to a tach gauge you need the whole cluster?
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![]() it was in an email I got...thought it was fitting and hilarious ![]() Quote:
oh and you will need a lens that doesn't have a clock hole in it. all the other gauges are the same.
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well buddy i went to the largest pick n pull around looking for a tach cluster. no luck out of maybe 50-60 square bodies
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I love to just walk around and browse junk-yards
![]() from my understanding and from reading on the internet, they quit making the in-cluster tach in 1981, and the ones before '80 were junk, so the 80-81 is highly sought after and sometimes sell on ebay for upwards of $450-$500 ![]() I need to find a bunch and get them fixed up and sell them...after we get one for John ![]()
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so your saying for me to be looking for a tach w/ the old style font is more or less a wild goose chase!
![]() and the newer style is only avail. in 80-81?! they are different right? yea, that deal my neighbors dad has isnt sounding so bad now! ![]() ![]()
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![]() they have different font....... check this out EBAY LINKY item #390071791026 and.. FUEL GAUGE LINKY item #220456670504
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huh, so they are out there... i like the looks of that tach with the old box and everything... im going to keep watching and see how high it gets. i was starting to think i'd just go w/ aftermarket gauges!!
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yeah you would just need to swap out your speedo to match....
I'm thinking I need to go dakota digital and cut out the headaches ![]() ![]()
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and another option....
CAMARO TACH oops, i think that is for V-6... here is a New Hampshire craigslist listing.... ![]() ![]() http://nh.craigslist.org/pts/1273967234.html
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http://www.73-87.com/7387garage/inte...achometers.htm follow the link and there are pics
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![]() ![]() here's another my neighbor tells me... man if i had all your money i'd burn mine! ![]() seriously though, i like the look of the white autometer gauges that go right into the stock bezel. that would also be an easy fix for the digital speedo signal w/ my swap. probably end up being just a tad cheaper than the dakota.
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good reading joe thanks!
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![]() I wish I had a money tree... I really love the look of the factory tach......but..... I just get frustrated sometimes trying to work with damn near 30 year old parts ![]()
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got a little update....
I got a sport bumper from RicksTrucks, Thanks Rick!! put it on last night, I haven't had a chance to clean it up yet, but I wanted to take some pics before I forgot ![]() I like it!!! I have an idea as to how I'm going to tuck it closer to the body.....I will post how it turns out ![]()
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Thats cool man i like it!
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much better huh?
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Oh yeah
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Looks awesome man. The element looks cool too. Bet it's a lot different to drive than the burb huh?
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yeah, the element is cool and the wife is happy.....so I'm happy.... and she is encouraging me to get a crew cab
![]() she has wanted an element since they came out in '03....and I have wanted a crew cab at least since the mid 80's, so........ BTW this truck is for sale to fund a crew cab......I will post in the classifieds in a bit
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looking good buddy! good luck on your search for a cc... i see them on cl all the time and a few around the neighbor hood.
sounds like a great deal she gets a car you get a truck. we did that for a while but it was my 2 to her 1 and on the 4th time Amy finally put her foot down and said NO MORE!! and that is why i started working on my truck... next thing you know i dont have that urge to buy anything new again but i kept taking things apart on the truck until i realized "hey dummy your doing a frame off resto!" ![]()
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