Where did you mount your tach in a 73-87 ?

[87_Blazer]

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[1974gmc]

Originally Posted by 86swb

Looks like they stole your shifter cover and the radio but left the tach? You are lucky to get the truck back with all that I can see still there. Most of the time the truck is completly stripped. Does the tach get in the way of the other gages?

i have the big fuel gauge so it only covers the bottom half of it.

actually they didnt steal anything from inside. i took the stereo out after because it was sitting ouitside for a while, and there was no cover for the shifter cas i was just mocking it up. after it got stolen i swapped out the 6cyl and 3spd for a 305 and th350 cause they f'd up the tranny

[82c10]

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[82c10]

still can't get it to

[82c10]

[77gmcjoe]

Originally Posted by bodydropped

dman a rare breed i seen only 1 and that went on ebay for 500 bucks but the draw back with those r that they have problems with the gas circuit burning out on them but i want one

Not trying to be an a$$, but I really don't think they're all that rare.
I've gotten a couple out of medium duties in a junkyard, and we had an '87 C70 that had one (it was the newer style "script", for lack of a better word).
I've seen a couple on Ebay, too.
If you look through a big truck junkyard, I'd bet you might find one. It seems that trucks with wet kits (dump trucks or grain boxes) tend to have factory tachs.

Joe

[N2TRUX]

I put mine "in" the dash....

[cracker]

N2TRX,
Thats nice looking!how much was involved to hook up the gas guage.Looking for some heads up before I install mine.

[cochino12]

Here's my '85

[84slopwaggin]

Cochino thats a sweetazz dash setup. Can you pleaze give some info on the white face guages you have? It has great visibility and just a totally different look from the norm.

[theintimidator3]

I drilled 2 small holes beside the sun visor and mounted it up there. I then ran my wires and hid them in the weatherstripping running down and through the fusebox etc.. It looks good, as long as you don't use your sun visor.

[N2TRUX]

Originally Posted by cracker

N2TRX,
Thats nice looking! how much was involved to hook up the gas guage.Looking for some heads up before I install mine.

It was just plug and play....

[gchemist]

I have a digital tach in place of the stock clock.

[ureckme]

Mine moves out of the way when I put it in park. Matt

[86swb]

Originally Posted by N2TRUX

I put mine "in" the dash....

Yes, I also would like to know the same thing. How hard was it??

[87 Shortwide]

[N2TRUX]

Originally Posted by 86swb

Yes, I also would like to know the same thing. How hard was it??

The hardest part was getting a cluster that I was happy with. I bought a nice cluster off of Ebay but all of the gauges weren't correct for my truck. I had the good fortune of discusssing it with Crossy who happen to have what I needed. I sent him my cluster and he installed all the correct gauges. Once I got a complete cluster it was a matter of plugging it in and running a wire for the tach....

[86swb]

I thought all you had to do was to hook up the other gauge cluster up to your truck? What would not work? What was not correct and what did "Crossy" do? What was it the Crossy had that you needed? Just a few (proberly too many) questions. Just want to do it right. I really like your set up. I would rather put mine on in the dash as you have yours. Thanks.

[daveM]

Originally Posted by 87 Shortwide

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87 Shortwide,

Very nice. What gauges? I also have an '87 and heard a tach wasn't possible??

I want to do that gauge set!! How tough a job? And where do I get the gauges? Thanks!

[bodydropped]

Originally Posted by 77gmcjoe

Not trying to be an a$$, but I really don't think they're all that rare.
I've gotten a couple out of medium duties in a junkyard, and we had an '87 C70 that had one (it was the newer style "script", for lack of a better word).
I've seen a couple on Ebay, too.
If you look through a big truck junkyard, I'd bet you might find one. It seems that trucks with wet kits (dump trucks or grain boxes) tend to have factory tachs.

Joe

well i own a salvage yard and i have about 10 of the ton and half series trucks and some of them had tachs like everyione else has that went were the gas gauge was and i havent seen and with the gas gauge on the bottom of the tach and the one that sold on ebay started at 50 bucks and sold for 400 and it was the whole cluster with the clock

[77gmcjoe]

Originally Posted by bodydropped

well i own a salvage yard and i have about 10 of the ton and half series trucks and some of them had tachs like everyione else has that went were the gas gauge was and i havent seen and with the gas gauge on the bottom of the tach and the one that sold on ebay started at 50 bucks and sold for 400 and it was the whole cluster with the clock

Maybe it was just a coincidence that I've seen so many like that.
I remember seeing one on Ebay that was new in the box (just the tach, someone had bought out the parts inventory of an out-of-business dealership), and I don't remember it bringing a king's ransom, maybe a little over $100 (bad enough).

But then again, I could be way off!

[87 Shortwide]

Originally Posted by daveM

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87 Shortwide,

Very nice. What gauges? I also have an '87 and heard a tach wasn't possible??

I want to do that gauge set!! How tough a job? And where do I get the gauges? Thanks!

Not really too hard of a job, just have to use your imagination a little bit. I got the guages through a speed shop, but Jegs is probably your best bet. Yea you can run a tach on the 87 also, it just connects to the bottom of the distributor next to where the coil wire plugs in.

They are Autometer Sport Comp Ultralites, the tach and speedo are 3 5/8", and the others are 2 1/16".

[Devil'S Ride]

Heres one shot of mine. This is from when I had the auto in the truck.....it used to be like "ureckme" an move with the column when I shifted. THen I put in the floor shifter, then manual trans, now it sits slightly lower, ontop of my switch panel.

[N2TRUX]

Originally Posted by 86swb

I thought all you had to do was to hook up the other gauge cluster up to your truck? What would not work? What was not correct and what did "Crossy" do? What was it the Crossy had that you needed? Just a few (proberly too many) questions. Just want to do it right. I really like your set up. I would rather put mine on in the dash as you have yours. Thanks.

Without writing a book let me give you some answers. The cluster I bought would "work" in my 77, but all the gauges were not the correct gauges for a 77. Some of them came from a later model cluster. Since I am anal about these things I wanted everything to be correct. Crossy happened to have what I needed in has parts stash. I sent him my cluster and he swapped me for the correct gauges.

Here is a pic of the "Fuel" gauge that was not correct. If you look close you will see where the PO has painted over the "Unleaded Gas Only" lettering below the word " Fuel"......

[SS79chevy]

Originally Posted by theintimidator3

I drilled 2 small holes beside the sun visor and mounted it up there. I then ran my wires and hid them in the weatherstripping running down and through the fusebox etc.. It looks good, as long as you don't use your sun visor.

put mine in the same place but i just used one of the screw holes the visor uses and the visor still comes down just far enough for me to get use of it