Temp Gauge help

[dyeager535]

They are kind of a pain to pull the whole cluster. It's not terrible, it's just time consuming.

I don't think purchasing the circuit board is probably a real viable solution. I dunno, maybe it is, but the design is flawed from the get go, with old connectors/terminals that are less springy than they were ~30 years ago, the PCB may be only part of the problem. Often the body wiring to cluster connection is the only problem, but that PCB leaves lots of opportunity for failures elsewhere.

 

[diesel4me]

If you do pull the dash cluster out,be careful of the "string" that operates the gear shift indicator,down near the steering colum...I break that stupid thing almost every time.....it has to be detached before the cluster comes out--it's held to the indicator by a screw,it looks like dental floss..once I break one I seem to never have any luck "fixing" it or getting the indicator to ever read properly again..

I installed 3 gauges in the dash above the ash tray on one of my trucks (79 C-10 with no A/C) that had idiot lights factory--put them where the A/C dust would have been..there's room next to the duct too,if you had A/C--much easier to see there,without taking your eyes off the road than stock gauges...I used Sun-Pro mechanical gauges,that WORKED with no troubles,and lit up at night much brighter than the dim candle dash lamps did on the stock ones..

 

[digitalepiphany]

It definitely looked like a PITA. At least I finally got to install my new dash bezel. It looks sweet. I'll post pics in another thread.

I think I'll try my hand at making a fiberglass mold of the a-pillar, and add the oil pressure gauge, temp gauge, and a tach. I'll post pics of it when I do it, good or bad. Obviously, if it's bad, it's not going in the truck.