Thread
:
86 Silverado Father and Son project
View Single Post
08-20-2014, 11:03 PM
#
427
EightiesOnly
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Bethel Acres, OK
Posts: 119
Re: 86 Silverado Father and Son project
Time for an update.
I gave my instrument cluster a long overdue overhaul. I have been wanting to install an 82-89 Camaro tach/ oil pressure gauge. So, I bought one on ebay....
This meant that I had to find a small fuel gauge to put where the original oil pressure gauge went, so I pulled one at LKQ from a 70's pontiac car...
It required a small amount of Dremel work to clear the black cluster cover...
I was able to use both of the mounting posts...
It required switching the oil pressure sending wire and the fuel sending wire on the cluster connector.
Then I painted the needles (including the tach needles) with this...
This stuff works great on needles. Just use a bunch of thin coats.
From there I needed to put something where the old tach (clock spot) was, so I hacked a the SES and CRUISE lights out of this non-working cluster...
Painted over the markings.
Everything epoxied together the epoxied straight to the bezel.
__________________
LC
.
My Truck Build (1986 LS powered c10)
Last edited by EightiesOnly; 08-20-2014 at
11:15 PM
.
EightiesOnly
View Public Profile
Find More Posts by EightiesOnly