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Re: Modding My Cluster
looks great
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Sweet. I've got a stock tach cluster sitting on my bench waiting for a some modification like that. It shouldn't be as much of a frankenstine as yours, but, it will need either a re-pinned connector or a couple of external circuits like yours. Now I got a little better idea of how to attack it.
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I must say" Bro, you've got skills and a lot of patience!" Looks great
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As it is, I've still got to figure out where to place the warning lights for the seat belt and the brake at. right now they're tucked behind the bezel......waiting.............. Dave
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Mad props to you for a job incredibly well done. Looks fantastic, so much like it was designed to be that way it's scary!!
![]() I've got to ask, how did you make the white faces? And are the numbers see through? IE; do the dash lights show through from the back?
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Re: Modding My Cluster
Looks very good!!
I am trying to get my tach to work, but having no luck. I know you have talked about this before. But I need to know what goes to what. You have 3 wiers coming out back of the tach, power that is red, and two more, I know that one has to be a ground and one go's to the distributor. Thanks, Trav
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I have the clock, and BLE 'BURBAN has been trying to help get the tach, but I haven't found a working unit yet. In the interim, Can you give details on how you did yours?
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As you look at the terminals on the back of the tach, you'll see two (2) side-by-side and a third one below. Going clock-wise from the top most terminal they hook up as follows;
12V switched power Ground Tach signal- Run this lead through the firewall directly to the tach lead terminal on the H.E.I. DISTRIBUTOR CAP. I also hooked up my digital FLUKE 87 METER to the #1 plug wire and used it as a digital tach to check the reading of my in-dash tach with that of my test meter to make sure it was reading properly. Since I had to dis-assemble the motor from the face and needle to swap it out for a good one, I had to make sure the needle was remounted in the proper position to read the same as my FLUKE did. I had to reposition it about 5 or 6 times <each time cringing and hoping I don't break the main shaft of the tach motor> to get it set right.
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Thanks Blu.. I will take a look at in the morning.
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Ttrav,
I think I have a spare cluster with a Tach. If your isn't working, I may be able to help you out. Let me see what year it is from, and try it out again to validate it works then I 'll let you know. |
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Thanks Drew...
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Good God I am going to get in over my head again. I've been looking at the printed circuit for the back of the clusters and wondering how hard it would be to reproduce/modify them so it looks like an O.E.M. part instead of the mess of spahgetti I have now. I just have to find some self adhesive mylar sheets,tracing paper & thin sheets of copper and the hardest thing of all time & patience!!!!
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![]() QUOTE=DBLSPRT68;2511497]I don't have any pics, and did this a few years ago....If I remember right, when you remove the air guage, you have to cut out a clock mounting stud out of another cluster, and glue it into the new cluster. This will make it possible to mount the clock tight. It wasn't hard at all. Get a factory quartz clock, or have the old style converted, mine keeps perfect time. David[/QUOTE] |
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Hey Pumpkin, I want to introduce the guy who showed me how to do this mod, and who sold the cluster to me....It still works great!!! I love it. Maybe you can help BLE Burban out of this. David
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Ok I've read and re-read this over and over and still can't make any sence out of it.....so DBLSPRT68 what is it you're trying to say?
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Ok I've read and re-read this over and over and still can't make any sence out of it.....so DBLSPRT68 what is it you're trying to say?
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BLE, the guy who is 84 pumpkin, is the one who showed me how to put my clock into a c40-60 tach cluster like ours. I bought the 80's cluster from him after he tested it, and then he wrote down how to install the clock. What I said was he is the man that knows these clusters, and you should contact him. It looks like he hasn't been to active on here for a while. I was going to suggest you buying an 80's cluster from him, which would be a plug in application. Have you got yours working right? I know the earlier tachs are a throw away item and not fixable, where as the later ones can be fixed, but with some $$$. David
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But yeah I am up and running now. However I am currently trying to find the materials to manufacture my own flexible P.C. board for my cluster so it'll look a lot better on the back side of the cluster than it does now. and if it works out right and looks as good as an original I may even offer to make up replacement ones for other models as well.
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Blu,
I went out today and tryed what you said. But I need to know one more time. I do not want to burn one up. This is how it looks going clock-wise with the colors. 12V switched power-is the white one Ground- is red Tach signal- is black? Thanks, Trav Quote:
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Great job. I have a simular task, but I'm not as talented as yourself.I would like to just have a working '74gauge panel.
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12V GND COIL Run yor leads as I described earlier in this thread and you should have no problems.
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Wow! I look stupid now... I should have look at it a little better.
Thanks your for help Blu.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
NO PROBLEM TRAVIS!! It's not the sort of thing most people would expect to see. I fact, I didn't even see it until I cleaned it up!!
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