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Tot Roddin'
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At one time, I believe that there was a board member that was refurbing the guage clusters, to use original guages, but have white faces painted on with the original lines.
Anybody recall what I'm talking about? Or am I crazy??? ![]()
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Look up Byrd. He does them. Here is the gauges in my '69 C-30 car hauler. I bought a kit from Ebay for $20 and did my own.
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
You can buy em on ebay. The seller is whitegauges.net
I bought his kit and did my own. The kit comes with everything to do a 5 hole cluster too and he sells tach and vac covers if you need em. You basically clean the gauges really good, put the stickers in soapy warm water, align them, use a soft cloth to push the bubbles out, then use a hair dryer to "shrink" them to fit. Don't use too much heat, they will melt. Also, you want to paint white in areas where the stickers won't cover first (they're not perfect.) You also get an A/C controller one too, so I did that as well. Here's mine.
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
This is what they look like with blue refractor LED bulbs behind them
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Yea, whitegauges.net will work. I bought mine from Durangedesigns.com. I think they are now the same site. Here's a link to the ones for our trucks. http://www.whitegauges.net/whitegaug...productsID=976
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Like this?
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
70c10 Those are awesome!
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Thanks kyull67!. byrd taught me everything I know. He is the gauge master!
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Here's mine. Top 3 gauges are factory and work fine. I repainted the faces white and touched up the needles with a little more day-glow paint.
The lower 4 are aftermarket (Sun Pro I think). I tossed out the nearly 40 year old failure prone flexible wiring and hard-wired everything. Took a while but it works like a charm.
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
I bought one from Randy (Byrd) on Ebay and they look even better in person. Great work and it was well worth what I paid for it being that you could tell there was a lot of pride and attention to detail on his finished work. I have yet to install it, but I am sure it will look great once I do. ![]() |
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
70c10
Where do you get the LEDs for your gauges? |
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
i was wondering the same thing on the leds, also, which tac it that? that would be much better than my hose clamped on the steering wheel job...
if those LED's arent that much work, i'm def gonna get the white gauges with colored LED's, thats HOT! |
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
i see whitegauges sells the LED's, i'm gonna get some, but is there a cheaper place? 5 bucks for a few LED's to replace a few cent bulb is a lil expensive, but def. worth it if there is no other option...
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
I got my 4 refractor LED's off ebay. Each bulb has 5 LED's in them. They run about $3 each bulb and the light dispersement is nice and even. The tach is a Sunpro 3.5".
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Those guages look great, but also pretty bright. Any problems with the LED's becoming annoying after an hour or so behind the wheel?
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Nope, mine are dimmable but the pic makes them look brighter than they are.
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Tot Roddin'
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
That's exactly what I'm talking about. What did you/do you charge for a full set?
What kind of paint did you use to paint the guage itself? Did you purchase some of the kits the other guy's were talking about?
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
I want a set of the silver overlays, Bird you still doing those??
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
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I use the decals like the others, but also do a host of other things like testing, blasting, painting, different lense, lots of TLC, refurb the speedo and zero it out. PM sent
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Sure do, PM sent
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Tot Roddin'
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
Thanks for the info Byrd! You do excellent work.
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Re: Looking for original guages with white faces
any links for the blue refractor LED bulbs
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