Don't go with amps! An ammeter requires that every electrical
connection short of the starter has to go through the ammeter first. I had
a '72 Toyota that the p/o had done this. Late at night it shorted;
all 60 amps from the alternator created the best fireworks show I'd ever
seen. Luckily she didn't burn up.
In 2 cars I have an outside temp guage. Certainly not critical
but interesting to watch the changes, and...it's great a predicting frozen
roads on those "gee is that just wet, or is it frozen?" nites.
Gary
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82 air cooled van. I'm putting in an oil temp and oil pressure guage, but I can't decide on the third guage. Volts? Amps? Cylinder head temp? What do you folks suggest? The other possibility is using the third space for a 2 1/16 vdo clock, and replacing my big dash clock with the tach out of a newer van. How difficult a process is installing a watercooled tach in my aircooled van? Do other air cooled folks think having a tach is worthwhile? I would also be interested in seeing any pictures of peoples guage installations. tanks for your inpot bus people! greg, 82 vanagon westfalia, newly de-rusted, touched up, re-exhausted, tuned up and cleaned out. |
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