making a dash gauge insert
 

I decided to buy new gauges & make a dash insert. The 6 gauges were much
cheaper than trying to replace the original gauges which did not work.....$240 for 6 gauges.

Tell me what you think.......Don

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while I admire you for making your own setup im not really a fan of the layout.
seems like a lot of wasted space.

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Is that a glove box door and you just drilled the mounting holes through it? I like the look.

I have thought about doing this also but cutting it and angling the gauges up slightly to see them better.:chevy:

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i think it looks great,nice work

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Pretty cool.

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You know we all have our view of what looks good in our eyes. Me, I like a classic or traditional or restomodish, whatever you want to call it vibe in my old cars and trucks. Your gauge panel is not my style at all. But I think you did an nice job on it and if you dig it, I dig it for you .... I know that makes zero sense haha!

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No...its not a glove box door. I started with 20 gauge sheet metal & 3/16" rod.

Seems like I got a lot of mixed reviews. I did this because my wiring is all
messed up & not one gauge worked. I am still trying to sort out the wiring.

I might need help with some of the wires hanging below the dash that I can not figure out what they are.

thanks for the comments

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Love it. Wish I had the courage. Was considering similar but with red oak. V nice

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Absolute thumbs up from me.
Any guy who steps and try's his own style in making something gets extra points and gold stars in my books....particularly when it includes his own skill and handiwork.
That said,....thats a different kinda design and look, but more importantly...its yours. Imagine how the original designers of the dash (any dash for that matter...) felt as they worked they way through something....then having to commit millions of parts to it.
Well done.
All Good
Coley

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Nice vintage gauges.

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You have room for more gauges!

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See if you can find a donor truck with the wiring harness intact and just replace the whole harness. These trucks are super simple to rewire as everything just plugs and unplugs. When I got my truck the wiring harness had a wire burned out all the way from the headlight switch to the tail lights and as I had a parts truck with a harness I just changed them out. Took me about 45 min. to get the old harness out and about 30 min to put the new one in.

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This morning I found out that the turn signals do not work I am so frustrated that I am thinking about buying a street rod type of after market wiring harness & using a Chevy
tilt steering column........that I understand.:waah:

Don

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These guys have a wiring diagram floating around here somewhere that will tell you where every wire goes. Do a search and see if you can find it. It saved me a ton of work since I am doing new gauges myself.

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Here is the plug that goes into the cluster. One is if you had lights the other is for gauges.
From you post you had factory gauges so the one you want is on the right. #9 is right hand signal wire. #10 is left hand signal wire.:chevy:

http://www.gmcpaulstruckparts.com/Pi...%20diagram.jpghttp://www.gmcpaulstruckparts.com/Pi...%20diagram.jpg

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Nice! I'm going to be doing something similar soon.

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x2... I think? I dig it for you, too :lol: