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I might as well finish it off. I just took a pair of needle nose pliers and busted out the backplane. Ordered ProSport Premium 60mm gauges. They are pretty shallow.
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I might as well finish it off.
I just took a pair of needle nose pliers and busted out the backplane. Ordered ProSport Premium 60mm gauges. They are pretty shallow. Ground the tabs off of the silver part of the bezel. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1331270294.288264.jpg Then ground most of the bezel base away so the the whole gauge fit through. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1331270311.944404.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1331270325.332207.jpg Removed the "leather" hood from the plastic hood base. Epoxied the silver ring back to the bezel. gauges 007.jpg I just siliconed the finished bezel to the gauge face in case I want to swap. Wired up the plugs. OEM black wire - ground OEM purple wire - constant OEM orange wire - switched Ran the sensor wires through the huge grommet on the passenger side behind the battery. Then I needed a way to hold the hood to the gauge... here's what i came up with using parts from the junk drawer.. your solution may be better.. i hope. gauges 008.jpg yup.. just a hose clamp. now to get it in the dash... i just bent and cut the bracket that came with the gauge.. gauges 009.jpg and took a screw, lock washer and nut from the junk drawer, drilled a hole in the hood and used it to sandwich the dash. gauges 010.jpg gauges 011.jpg Then I just took some double-stick and put the hood covers back on. gauges 013.jpg not sure about these 'black out' gauges that everyone sells... with the top down on the car you can't read them at all. I wired up a mini-toggle switch so I can flip between the 'amber' and 'white' LED colors to see if that will help in sun light. gauges 014.jpg oh... keep the hoods numbered or something... they are all slightly different. Last edited by ryan0; 03-10-2012 at 01:00 AM. |
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QUOTE "Ground the tabs off of the silver part of the bezel.
Attachment 42490 " Does anyone know the part number for this silver bezel piece? Are all three the same part number or different?
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the part number is 68236 they are about 20 buck from what I can tell. if you use 60mm guages you will have to grind those off and then attach to the new guages. if you use 52 mm guages the tabs will slide over them and then you can glue them using the tabs as a guide/gluing location.  
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