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64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Anybody put a voltmeter in the stock guage cluster? Maybe in the big hole on the left side (where I'm told the "air' guage was for some bigger trucks)?
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
I have not, first of all......but, I think it would be possible if you find one with a roughly 90* sweep. Most gauges have wider sweeps; I was considering a tach in dash and this is what I ran into. The re-pop vintage tachs have the short sweep but are too expensive for me to hack up to fit in a dash.
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
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Or leave it alone and put a voltmeter under the dash? Roy
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Might try these:
http://www.jcwhitney.com/chrome-2-ra...wx?filterid=j1 http://www.jcwhitney.com/illuminated...wx?filterid=j1 I played around some with the tach- http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...95#post4305395 |
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Welll- you could send it to me then....
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Why's that?? You know how to fix it??
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Have no idea- but willing to take alook at it and try.
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
PO had put in the same tach as you . . . It looks like one from Making Waves brand in JC Whitney . . . where'd you get yours? It fits good in there.
Roy JC Whitney as well- around $40.00. And you dont' have to cut up the dash itself. Just the one backing plate. http://www.persh.org/pickup/TachDash.htm |
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Think I'm gonna mount a small volt meter under the dash somewhere. Roy
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Find yourself a mid eighties GM car with the voltmeter, remove it, take it home and dismantle it by separating the movement from the face, doing the same to your original, install the eighties onto your original face, install into dash pod, thats how they are doing this on the chevelles, I have`nt done it yet but am looking into it.
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
From the 1963 GMC Accessories Book. Chevrolet Accessories book had it listed as well.
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
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I just bought a NOS Bat-O-Meter and a sun tach (less sender) I am in the middle of refurbing a 66 gmc dash and I think this will make it look a lot better. I am trying to use chrome paint to finish it off will advise how it works and looks after everything is finished. Company wanted $200.00 to vacuum chrome it but I think I can do is by soda blasting the plastic, primering it, painting with chrome paint and then clearing it. Worst case I have to send it to them to redo it. Kieth ![]() ![]() |
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
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Cool, where you gonna mount the Bat-o-meter? Roy
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
JUST A LITTLE UPDATE: FINAL RENDITION INSTALLED BATOMETER AND SUN TACH 66 GMC.... ![]() http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-G...WmmMg&lb=1&s=A IN THE TRUCK: ![]() ![]() http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-G...PBQ7f&lb=1&s=A |
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
I went to a junk yard and got the volt meter, have it installed in the cluster cutout thing and ready to install, but how do you hook up the wiring harness to the voltmeter? Did you cut the factory plug and install ring terminals? Any pictures? This is a great writeup, and I tested my gauge before installing. Just hope it all works when I get it back together, haha.
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Yeah, sometimes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, works just fine . . .
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Well there is some thruth to that, but if you`ve ever had a harness fire due to a amp gauge/voltage regulator you`ll never have another one. I lossed a harness in a `62 409 back in `69......man what a mess....
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
be sure to read this as well, shows a better way to retain the meter with tabs and clamp. Should be enough room for a hose clamp . . .
http://www.persh.org/pickup/TachDash.htm
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
Hey Roy,
Could you post how you wired up the gauge? It's obviously pretty simple, but there were three studs on the back of the gauge and I wasn't sure exactly how to hook it up. |
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
I found this thread by searching the forums for using the original ammeter space and replacing with a Voltmeter.
Good job on this. I had a bad dash fire back in 84/85 when I had my old 65 before. I'm going through the wiring now, and all evidence points to the ammeter.
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Re: 64-66 Chevy Stock Gauges - Voltmeter vs Ammeter (Batt)?
i did it kinda the same in my 60-63 gauge panel. wanted a vac gauge for the left side (my K10 has the vac brakes) but haven't found one yet that i liked. so i put a $9 volt gauge there temp. tack is an old dixo--didn't want a 8k but the price was right.
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