Well done and innovative. Any provision for the 24v guys coming in the future?
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Well done and innovative. Any provision for the 24v guys coming in the future?
He's working on both a speedo and a tach.
How about....
Well I've put mine in over the weekend, very happy with finished product, although Im thinking I may of stuffed up the fuel gauge. When I turn on the ignition the fuel gauge shoots slowly all the way to full, then slowly goes back to a position( this takes about 5 minutes). I wouldnt be too concerned otherwise, but unless some magical pixies have come along and topped up my truck with diesel, they is about a quarter of a tank more in there than when I removed the cluster. Anyone else had trouble with this? Im thinking I might go to the wreckers and grab another fuel gauge off another truck to see if it happens again.
I was really hooked on getting the electrical gauges at first, mainly cause I didnt like the idea of running a hose from the engine for the oil. Well silly me, turns out the previous owner had installed a mechanical gauge, and left the hose behind the original cluster all hooked up, with a cap on the end. So my next question is, how much would you charge me for sending out the set of mechanical gauges only. The more I think about it the mechanical look closer to stock, so the idea is definately growing on me.
Funniest thing also happened while installing this, I found out my heater fan does actually work.I was surprised at how much excess wires were found behind the old cluster.I spent half the day cleaning up everything going to the fuse box, in the end having about 3 metres of excess wire pulled out and binned.
Like to say thanks to Drew for the excellent customer service, very easy to deal with considering the distance. Look forward to hearing back about a price for the mechanical gauges![]()
The three post fuel gauges are a funny little thing - they contain their own cheapo voltage regulator which grounds through a little copper tab poking out of the back of the gauge, which was designed to just press against the circuit board in the original cluster. On p12 of my instructions, there is a note to make sure that you bend this tab outwards a little bit so that it is pressing against the bracket when its installed - this gives it a ground path.