merbesfield
SILVER Star
Very nice. I will probably order one eventually. Good work.
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So has anyone driven at night with the EL wire yet to determine if they are too bright or ok?
What do you do if the EL wire burns out? How are the EL wires held in place?
Very cool and nice work. Can someone tell me the pros and cons of going mechanical vs. electrical?
Stock gauges in a 78 should be electrical like in my 79. Mechanical gauges are supposed to be more accurate but you have to run tubing into the passenger compartment with oil in it to hook to the gauge. I've never been crazy about this idea, but people have been doing it for decades. Hopefully i'll be ordering one of these kits soon. It would be nice to know if the oil pressure in my recently rebuilt 2F really is dropping slightly under load, and how much. The stock gauge says it is, but I don't trust it a whole lot.
Thank you
Lets be clear - Toyota used electrical gauges, however you're free to choose whichever you like. Nothing from the old setup is reused, if you go electrical all new autometer senders are included, so it doesn't matter tha Toyota used electrical.
Excellent. Are the senders threaded for the same location to replace the factory senders? Doesn't oil pressure come off the filter mount?
The oil pressure senders are 1/8" NPT and will need a NPT-BSPT adapter.
The water temp senders are also NPT, but 1/2" and larger are OK to use with BSPT, with no adapter.
Hmm, will gauges work with stock senders, or does that defeat the purpose of replacing the gauges?
Does anyone have a pic of the adapters and senders in place? I hate getting too many adapters in place and having a big gangly looking set-up.