Orange Ringed 80+ Tachometer Cluster
 

Custom built this cluster for my old 80 K25. Parted the truck out, and held onto it thinking I'd eventually put it into the Diesel K5. Have since decided that if I put a tach cluster in, it'll be one of the medium duty clusters.

Cluster has a 60 PSI oil pressure gauge, small fuel gauge, temp and volt meters, along with a 0 - 140 km/h speedometer. Has a choke & 4x4 indicator under the speedometer, and a park brake indicator under the tach.

This cluster will require you to re-pin your instrument wiring! It will not fit any factory configuration.

Asking $200 shipped for the full cluster, or $125 shipped for just the tach gauge itself.

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How about $100 shipped for just the gauge?

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what is special built about it? No offense but sounds like a regular tach setup.

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Yup, it is!

The difference is in the idiot lights, they do not comform to the standard wiring scheme. The cluster is also modified to accept an optical speed sensor.

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Does this have the diesel tach or gasser??

So the wiring your talking about is for a truck that has idiot lights and not the gauges to convert over?

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Gasoline tachometer -- GM never offered a tach for the light duty diesel trucks. The cluster is set up with a volt meter, small fuel gauge, 60 PSI oil pressure gauge and temperature gauge (all electric). They should all work with a factory pinout from a 78+ truck. The tach is stand alone from the cluster, as is the cable driven speedometer.

The idiot light that would require re-pinning is the park brake light. The factory pin connected to the light is for the seat belt light, IIRC. The choke light I've never actually seen hooked up before, and the 4x4 light is powered using an external harness.

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pics of the cluster please...interested in the whole thing

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Stopped by Ardrossan and grabbed the cluster today -- Totally forgot that this cluster has a mechanical oil pressure gauge on it -- my apologies!

Here are a few pictures

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does the tach work? guaranteed?

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Yup, I'll offer a money back guarantee on it

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man I want this thing some kind of bad, but it is too close to Christmas for me to swing it. Good luck!
It is a heck of a deal for someone!

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Feel free to make me an offer! Poor starving students are very flexible on shipped pricing!

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bump! Offers anyone?

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I really like the idea of having a factory tach in my truck, but never tried swapping clusters before...

Would this be a simple plug-and-play setup as far as install, or do the non-factory tach folks have to do a bit of rewiring and/or other tweaks before making this unit work?

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This cluster will require you to re-pin your instrument wiring! It will not fit any factory configuration.

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Ooops :o

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Rede, I PMed you an offer to make this plug and play for your truck :)

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A stock tach cluster would be a plug and play. Make sure you get the correct year for your truck, don't want to plug a "volts" cluster into your truck if you have an "amps" gauge, or vise verse. Bad things will happen.