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Just ordered mine- who else has them?
![]() ![]() other colors also welcome I bought an old set of gauges that dont look very nice so if i wanna change back to my old ones i can do so without kicking myself!!! ![]() |
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
I got 'em too. Didn't get the blue L.E.D.'s though, my dash lights are the PC194 variety where the bulb and the base are one unit and they are smaller in diameter than the standard base.
I painted my needles too with spray paint and a fine hair paint brush.
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
looks real nice. i like what you did with the needles!
i was thinking about leaving them the original oragne, but now that i have seen your i wanna paint em |
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
I got mine !
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
ot.. but can you post more pics of your head unit? how did you get a 1.3 din in there?
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
how much of a pain were they to install...
the instructions on the site make it sound too easy... |
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
Yeah they do don't they
![]() I got about 5 hours on the dining table putting mine in, But my odometer found it's way back to zip as well some how. ![]()
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
They were VERY easy to install. I just used 2 small drops of dish soap in the little applicator bottle then filled it with water like the instructions said.
Clean and dry the face of the gauge. Peal the overlay off it's backing, give the sticky side 1 or 2 stritz's of water then slip the overlay over the needle. Center the overlay on the gauge face and "eyeball" it's positioning to make sure it's straight and center'd thenuse the squeegee to sqeeze the water out from behind the overlay. Turn your hair dryer on high and fry them up while at the same time shrinking them ever so slightly to conform to the face of the gauge. The only concern I had was with the speedo because of the trip meter reset knob. I finally pulled the needle off then the face and placed the overlay on it then reassembled it.
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
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that fit around the stereo head unit which is a SONY double D.I.N. unit. I have four speakers in the dash - 2 MTX and the dual speaker set up for the center of the dash from LMC. 2 sony 4X10 behind the rear seats in the factory locations. 2 sony 6X9's in enclosers mounted to the rear side walls where the 3rd row seat belts would be if I had a third seat in it. I also have a sub box right behind the rear reat with 2 10" MTX woofers in it. And mounted to the roof over the rear seat is a 10 disc changer. Here's what my head unit looks like......
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
Was pretty easy. Got the blue LED's too much better light.
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
Where are you guys buying the white faces from, if you don't mind me asking? I have seen them around the internet, but each one seems to be a bit different in appearance. Just curious..........
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
I got them from www.whitegauges.net
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
I wish heather was still making hers, here are the overlays I had in my 85
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
have any of you guys bought the neon glow wire that i did? I was thinking that the LEDs will be much brighter, but still not enough. Plus i can always dim them down if i have to
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
The L.E.D.'s won't dim with the factory headlight switch. You'll have to install a seperate dimmer for them. Same story with the neon glow wire.
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
where can i get one of these dimmers....??
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
I do believe DAKOTA DIGITAL has something availible
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
ill check it out
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
it says it only works with their gauge system... i think their plug will only plug into their system or something like that, but it should dim mine, right? just need to splice it in
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd404.htm |
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
Okay... just got my package in the mail!!!!!!!!!
on the heater panel, do you just install it while its still in the dash? it says you dont have to remove the knobs, but do i need to take it out of my dash? |
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
Me too
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
Well i just did a test to see how hard it was on a guage that i wont be using. What ya think? I took the needle off cuz it was a trashed gauge that someone had pained the needles a creamy whitish color.... yuck
well i went ahead and took one with the needle on... |
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
Tis just the flash from his camera. Also I was thinking of doing white gauges on my Chevy, but never got around it, now I just looked at the F-150 kits and it turns out I gotta pull the speedo and paint it white myself - man that's just bull, if I'm gonna be painting the darn thing may as well paint the other gauges too - y'all got it easy with them complete gauge kits, they turn out real nice!
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Re: Just ordered mine- who else has them?
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