Date:         Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:47:50 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Thoma <mpthoma2003@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Thoma <mpthoma2003@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Current van projects / seamless, quad headlights, 9 gauge cluster
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Hi everybody,
Having seen all the recent posts I've got a few jpg's of recent projects.
After growing tired of not being able to see anything at night with the
quad headlights in my '87, I found a set of buckets for the earlier
round headlights in a junkyard and put them in.  Then deciding that I
really didn't like the two headlight look I found a set of buckets for the
old 5" quad headlight set-up on an early model GM, sawed them in half
and used the half for the high beam.  Easy to wire.  Lotsa light, notta
lotsa moola.  Next step have my welder buddy put together a grill out
of aluminum.
A couple of pics of the seamless project.  Love this Metal-2-Metal
product.  Like Bondo, but apparently made out of powdered aluminum and
resin.  Sets up in 3-5 minutes though.  Gotta work fast and olny mix up a
little at a time.
And finally a couple of pics of the instrument cluster project.  9
gauges (including the water temp, oil pressure, oil temp, boost, egt,
volts, speedo, tach, and original fuel gauge {little cutout between speedo
and tach) inside the original binnacle.  Three idiot lights (alt, oil
pressure, coolant loss, turn signals).  Losta surgery but again notta
lotsa moola if you don't count the expense of the gauges.
mark



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