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09-08-2020, 11:03 PM
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Re: My New Truck
Ok in going through my gauges (1973) I have come across what I would call an anomaly. My temp gauge looks like this, it goes from 100 to 250. Yet every other 1973 temp gauge looks like the C/ H temp gauge seen in the bottom photo. The font (of the 100-250 gauge) matches my trucks other gauges and it DOES NOT match the font of the newer trucks, plus we have owned the truck since it was 2 years old and the gauge cluster has never been apart.
Has anybody else seen a stock 1973 temp gauge going from 100 to 250? All other gauges in the truck match the other 1973 gauge clusters I have seen.
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09-29-2021, 11:49 AM
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Do you have an updated pic or video of this new gauge set up? I have a 77 and I am curious if I should do something similar. I do not like not having a Tach. Thanks! Sven |
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09-29-2021, 08:22 PM
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This winter I plan to finish it. Here is the latest mock up of the 8000 RPM tach and the rest of the factory gauges. Tach face fonts are now the same size and scale as the Speedo (Note needles are just lying on the gauges they are not attached yet).
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09-29-2021, 08:25 PM
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Here is the decal I apply to the fuel gauge face. (note the bigger fonts on the Tachometer gauge now).
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09-29-2021, 08:29 PM
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Since you are adding a tach you are going to have to do something with the wiring. So I made my own custom plug,(the Mylar decal wiring won't work for this application) in case, this cluster ever needs to come back out. The fuel gauge will also be in this plug as well. The Squarebody plug to the laminate decal wiring will carry all of the normal gauges and their functions (I would have liked to run EVERYTHING through the original Squarebody wiring plug-but since that cannot happen...).
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09-30-2021, 08:59 PM
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Here's what the Tach I used looked like before I took it apart to mount in to the back of the old Fuel Gauge.
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09-30-2021, 09:06 PM
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Then I realized that the tach housing was WAY to big to get inside the Squarebody housing SO it had to go (And since I didn't want to cut a huge hole in the back of this nice housing-I had to find another way). Unfortunately the picture of it fitting in the Squarebody gauge cluster didn't come out the best, but it squeezed in there with minimal damage to the housing.
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