Wietse
Well-Known Member
So had ordered a whole bunch of bits and pieces for my dash and finished it all off today.
Did not get to the speedometer cable as yet but that will be the next item on the list.
Got all stickers to refresh the gauge faces and installed all the new electrical stuff.
First thing noted was that the fuel meter indicated correct as i just filled up the tank.
Cleaned and spray painted the dash face with plastidip and added a dark metallic color on the gauge edges.
Polished the clear lenses with stuff for plastic headlight restoration and got the scratches and **** out, looks a lot better.
When it got dark checked all the dash lights but did not work, bypassed the dimmer and now working fine.
Hopefully i will get the tachometer to work properly as well and it's first "big" job completed!
Another thing to look at is the RPM signal wire, the shop where i bought the car from installed a ready-to-run MSD ignition, this supply's a grey wire from the distributer.
Do i need to hook up this wire to the back of the rpm gauge? (attach on the "points" pin, short brass one on the back?)
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Did not get to the speedometer cable as yet but that will be the next item on the list.
Got all stickers to refresh the gauge faces and installed all the new electrical stuff.
First thing noted was that the fuel meter indicated correct as i just filled up the tank.
Cleaned and spray painted the dash face with plastidip and added a dark metallic color on the gauge edges.
Polished the clear lenses with stuff for plastic headlight restoration and got the scratches and **** out, looks a lot better.
When it got dark checked all the dash lights but did not work, bypassed the dimmer and now working fine.
Hopefully i will get the tachometer to work properly as well and it's first "big" job completed!
Another thing to look at is the RPM signal wire, the shop where i bought the car from installed a ready-to-run MSD ignition, this supply's a grey wire from the distributer.
Do i need to hook up this wire to the back of the rpm gauge? (attach on the "points" pin, short brass one on the back?)
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