fstfish66 - Need your help!

[RobbAdams]

Good morning,

I have been working away over the wekend, to do a guage conversion very much like the one you did. I have enlarged the openings, and have fitted the guages, and have the wiring issues all figured out. I do have a few questions for you though. I have asked them here instead of by PM as I thought other may be interested.

My first question is in regards to remounting the Bezel after the guage part is removed. How did you accomplish this? It appears to me that the Guage cluster itself is required to hold everything together?

Also without the whole metal part, I am having a hard time getting the ignition to mount up firmly. How did you overcome this?

I am thinking about trying to cut out the perimiter of the guage pod with all of the mounting points still intact, but am hoping you came up with a better solution?

Thanks in advance for your help. Any photos you may be able to provide would really help as well.. Once I get the job done I will make a nice post up of how I did it for everyone to enjoy!

 

[RobbAdams]

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[fstfish66]

hey,,, hi and thanks for asking,,,if i remember correctly,,its been 12 years since i did this conversition,,,and ill soon be taking it out to redo the dash bezel,,

if i rememebr correctly,, the dash bezel screws to the metal part of the dash,, the metal frame has threaded holes,,it doent require the circuit board to hold it together,,also the ignition switch is held to the bezel with a chrome bezel nut,,that tightens up against the plastic bezel,,

there are screws behind the heater switch bezel that hold the gauge bezel to the frame,, then the heater bezel goes back on over that area,..i have a new computer with vista operating system,,so i currently can not scan any of the pics i may have,,,

let me know how it works out for you,,or if i can help next time feel free to PM me or E MAIL me i almost missed this topic,,,