Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:25:02 -0800
Reply-To: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Adding gauges to a Vanagon dashboard/ Checkout Mitsubishis
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Mark & Listees
This discussion on additional gauges is a pretty good thread. Mark or
Ken, Your gauges and housing sounds great. Could you please post a
picture if you can.
I actually was contemplating doing the very same thing and went as far
as contacting VDO to find out if they have any special housing. They
sent me a catalog with lots of gauges etc. The single, two and three
gauge housing is all they sell for housing.
My original concept was to find a Mistubishi Montero in a junk yard
and take the dashboard guages from that replacing theirs with the VDO
gauges/senders. Mistu does a real nice clean job with the leather
covered dash gauges. For the leather off-roaders out there! They mount
the optional unit about where our ash tray sits so it could be done
without additional holes.
Mitsubishi has 3 gauges which includes an airplane-type directional
level compass guage for all of us SyncroHeads that may be inclined to
get lost in the sticks.
Another great gauge that I loved, is knowing what the road/outside
temperature is. It use to be a standard VDO gauge on the SAAB Turbos
(along with the Turbo boost). My Subaru has this guage and I
constantly check to see how cold/hot it really is outside.
Of course we no longer need the cylinder head temperature gauge which
was valuable in the old Air cooled engines.
Sounds like I need 6 gauges on my dash ;-)
E-Cheers to all of us trusting little red idiot lights.
Joel Cort
89 Syncro GL Westy performing quite well in cold Rochester
---Mark McCulley <transporter99@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I installed 3 gauges (oil pressure, oil temp, voltage) in a VDO
housing
> atop the instrument cluster. The housing is the one described by Ken
> Wilfy--it fully encloses the gauges hiding the wires for a nice clean
> appearance. My only complaint is that the lighted gauges reflect in
the
> windshield at night. I plan to fashion some kind of shade to fix this
> problem but haven't gotten around to it yet.
>
> Mark McCulley
>
>
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