daveSanborn
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I've been playing around with the new cluster shell and Autometer gauges on the workbench for the past few days and finally got around to installing the cluster last night.
I used the Phantom series gauges and am for the most part happy with how everything turned out.
I wish I'd have done one thing differently..... sprang for the electric speedo instead of the mechanical one. I already had the cable there for the mech. speedo and figured it would be the easiest to install... and it was, but the needle bounces (just a little bit). I suppose I can pull the cluster back out and try some lube on the cable end....
Upon first drive, I topped the fuel tank off and the fuel gauge reads right at 3/4. I guess the only adjustment for this is to slightly bend the sending units arm?
I went with a Voltmeter instead of an Amp gauge. Water Temp is manual and so is Oil Pressure. The tach's tied into the feed off of the EEC and works great....now. It was kicking my butt last night though.... the darn schematic for the tach wiring showed one power wire going to 12V switched and another wire going to the battery. This didn't make much sense to me, but who am I to argue with a schematic? After numerous attempts to get the tach to start working, I went back to square one and re-read the instructions and re-looked at the schematic.... for about an hour. It was then that I noticed the wire going to the battery was NOT 12V, but instead the ground wire. WTF did they have to put a picture of a battery on the schematic for? A simple "To Ground" would have sufficed. Once I grounded the tach (duh!), everything worked great. Now that I'm using a tach, maybe I won't spin the motor so fast..... I took her up to 5500 RPM in second gear this evening and realized I'd been revving her well past this point. Probably 6500-7000 RPM. No more of that for a while.
Here's some pictures of the finished project....
I used the Phantom series gauges and am for the most part happy with how everything turned out.
I wish I'd have done one thing differently..... sprang for the electric speedo instead of the mechanical one. I already had the cable there for the mech. speedo and figured it would be the easiest to install... and it was, but the needle bounces (just a little bit). I suppose I can pull the cluster back out and try some lube on the cable end....
Upon first drive, I topped the fuel tank off and the fuel gauge reads right at 3/4. I guess the only adjustment for this is to slightly bend the sending units arm?
I went with a Voltmeter instead of an Amp gauge. Water Temp is manual and so is Oil Pressure. The tach's tied into the feed off of the EEC and works great....now. It was kicking my butt last night though.... the darn schematic for the tach wiring showed one power wire going to 12V switched and another wire going to the battery. This didn't make much sense to me, but who am I to argue with a schematic? After numerous attempts to get the tach to start working, I went back to square one and re-read the instructions and re-looked at the schematic.... for about an hour. It was then that I noticed the wire going to the battery was NOT 12V, but instead the ground wire. WTF did they have to put a picture of a battery on the schematic for? A simple "To Ground" would have sufficed. Once I grounded the tach (duh!), everything worked great. Now that I'm using a tach, maybe I won't spin the motor so fast..... I took her up to 5500 RPM in second gear this evening and realized I'd been revving her well past this point. Probably 6500-7000 RPM. No more of that for a while.
Here's some pictures of the finished project....
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