SC Restored 64-66 Factory Tach Cluster

[theastronaut]

Restored '64-66 factory tach cluster. I've cosmetically restored it but I don't have any way to check to see if the gauges work. Price is **SOLD**. Send me your zip and I'll get you a shipping quote. Will be shipped with tracking and insurance, and well packaged to avoid damage.


What I did to restore it:


Gauge faces have Greenback Decal's decals applied.

Gauge needles have been repainted the correct florescent orange.

The housing, bezel, and gauge holders have been glass bead blasted and repainted in the correct finishes. Bezel was primed and wetsanded prior to painting for a smoother finish.

The intermediate plate had some waves/distortion in it that didn't come all the way out. Visible when viewed from an angle. This piece was wetsanded and painted the correct low gloss black.

It has a new lens that I buffed for better clarity.

New "TAND"M LOCK" and "OVER SPEED" lenses. I made these, they're not available anywhere else.

Contacts on the individual gauges were cleaned.

Odometer set to 99,999. I can reset it to match your truck's mileage.

***It is missing the wiring harness, tach shift point markers, and the top center bezel screw. The harness is the same as a regular cluster with gauges so you would be able to reuse your harness. The tach harness is available as a reproduction or it would be simple to make one. ***

[DoubleL]

Nice work!

[roOstersan]

It's beautiful... I sent my dad the link immediately!
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[C/10 King]

Wow! I'm awestruck, that's beautiful!

[theastronaut]

Originally Posted by DoubleL

Nice work!

Originally Posted by roOstersan

It's beautiful... I sent my dad the link immediately!
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Originally Posted by C/10 King

Wow! I'm awestruck, that's beautiful!

Thanks dudes! Price is OBO, I want to move this to buy Goldilocks a few Christmas presents!

[theastronaut]

Sale pending off forum.

[theastronaut]

Sold!

[duallyjams]

Your asking price was a super good deal.

[theastronaut]

Originally Posted by duallyjams

Your asking price was a super good deal.

Between the cost of the donor cluster, the new lens, decals, and paint- I'm not making much off them. I'd be better off putting in a few more hours at work but I like doing these better. That's probably the last one I'll sell unless I find a dirt cheap donor.
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[DoubleL]

Originally Posted by theastronaut

Between the cost of the donor cluster, the new lens, decals, and paint- I'm not making much off them. I'd be better off putting in a few more hours at work but I like doing these better. That's probably the last one I'll sell unless I find a dirt cheap donor.
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I hear you. People think you can throw these together and make a killing but it's surprising how it all adds up. It is hard to find reusable parts. I have bent bezels, lenses scratched beyond repair,rusty gauges etc. A lot of which you can't tell until after you've bought them. Repop parts to repair them are pricey!
If you do them right it isn't a ton of profit.

[theastronaut]

Originally Posted by DoubleL

I hear you. People think you can throw these together and make a killing but it's surprising how it all adds up. It is hard to find reusable parts. I have bent bezels, lenses scratched beyond repair,rusty gauges etc. A lot of which you can't tell until after you've bought them. Repop parts to repair them are pricey!
If you do them right it isn't a ton of profit.

Exactly, nobody is getting rich off redoing these things!

New lens- 50.00 plus shipping.
Decal set- 40.00 plus shipping.
Repro harness- 65.00 plus shipping.
Paints/Primer- 30.00 bought locally.
Avery for lenses- 8.00 bought locally.

Total- $193.00 just for parts/materials without shipping.

Donor cluster- I bought this one for $135 shipped. It was listed wrong on ebay so it wasn't easily found by any normal searches. It had been listed twice with no bids. I got lucky, they're normally $200 plus.

Not all of them need a new harness and the paint/primer will last long enough to do a few clusters but that gives people a rough idea of the cost that goes into one. I feel that all of them need a new lens and decals to restore the proper green coloring that is faded to white on 95% of clusters out there. Also, the sheen of the factory paint isn't the same beetween the gauges and the tach due to GM using different suppliers (AC vs Sun). The decals make them all match.

It takes 12-15 hours of labor needed to super detail a cluster- strip/mask/paint everything, clean and apply the decals, mask and paint the needles, make new Tand'm Lock/Over Speed lenses, clean and detail the wiring harness, add new bulbs, bead blast and paint the gauge holders, buff the new lens, and reassemble without scratching anything while keeping dust and lint out of the cluster . If you were charging normal shop rates of $50 per hour then you're looking at $600-750 in labor.

At minimum it's worth charging $900-$1000 retail if it has a good harness and you don't check or replace the gauges.