Me & My '59 Apache - The Story Begins

[B52bobardier1]

Hello,

I took a chance and got a complete eBay instrument panel cluster including the bezel with good glass and it got here maybe a week ago - for a little under $72.00 USD. Swapping the old one out and putting this one in was easy this afternoon and I was anxious to try it out. The gas gauge and the oil pressure gauge both work just like the original instrument panel.

Unlike my original cluster, this speedometer is quiet and the needle moves but strangely, it has the exact same speed error as the original. Its also about 12-15 MPH faster than the actual GPS speed.

I think I will just have to live with this for now and I believe the problem is that it needs a different drive gear inside the tail cone of the TH350. The driven gear got replaced and that only corrected the error by maybe two miles per hour. To change the drive gear is deeper into the transmission than I want to go for now.

Rick