Found something cool

85k10383 · Apr 8, 2011

Whilst screwing around on the interweb the other night and wanted to share it with youse guys. I may be way late with this, but what the hell. White gauge face overlays for 20 bucks! www.whitegauges.net And they make them for all kinds of oddball **** for cheap! I'm gonna get a set and try them out, they also sell an overlay for the heater controls for 12 bucks, that I may get also. I'll put some pics up when they are in, along with my other dash project that is already done.

Manbearpig · Apr 13, 2011

Hmm interesting

Do report back if you get some.

85k10383 · Apr 13, 2011

You bet! They have already been ordered. One minor problem being that my heater controls don't really match the overlay at all, as mine is a non A/C truck but what the hell. This may actually force me to spend the money for a new printed circuit board so all my dash lights will work. LOL

CaliDude76 · Apr 14, 2011

85k10383 said:
You bet! They have already been ordered. One minor problem being that my heater controls don't really match the overlay at all, as mine is a non A/C truck but what the hell. This may actually force me to spend the money for a new printed circuit board so all my dash lights will work. LOL

Can a bad printed circuit board cause the gauges to malfunction too.. or is it just a dash-light deal?

89Suburban · Apr 14, 2011

Sounds neat. Do a write up if you can man. You gonna LED the dash bulbs while it's apart? Or change the color of the bulbs? :popcorn:

bucket · Apr 14, 2011

CaliDude76 said:
Can a bad printed circuit board cause the gauges to malfunction too.. or is it just a dash-light deal?

It can cause the gauges to go screwy too. My '77 did some screwy crap because of one little ground circuit. My dad soldered in some wire to bypass the bad spot, so the printed circuit can actually be repaired.

85k10383 · Apr 14, 2011

Burb, the dash bulbs are all LED already, I did that first, then realized the circuit board was bad along with a couple of the little socket thing-a-majigs. I can have my cluster out and apart in about thirty-five seconds after all the screwing around I have done with it over the last two weeks LOL I'll take some pics while I'm putting the new gauge faces in though. My problem now is that I wll have at least three gauges with pretty white faces that either don't work or I have no use for. My clock is long since deceased, oil pressure and water temp are both DOA, and replaced with aftermarket under the ash tray (like 8 out of 10 squares the world over) So what am i to do then? Putting white faces on dead gauges strikes me as a little silly, but the dash will look really stupid with half a set of white faces..... What a problem to have right? LOL

89Suburban · Apr 15, 2011

I think it wuld look really cool with a color change hoss, like red or green or blue LED backlighting. :waytogo:

CaliDude76 · Apr 15, 2011

bucket said:
It can cause the gauges to go screwy too. My '77 did some screwy crap because of one little ground circuit. My dad soldered in some wire to bypass the bad spot, so the printed circuit can actually be repaired.

Hmmm... very interesting. I have all gauges except clock in my cluster, and they all dont work.. my gas gauge will only read to 1/4 when full. Not sure if it's bad gauges or the circuit board (replaced sending units)

85k10383 · Apr 15, 2011

I'm kinda going for the simple look, black and white. I'm going to repaint the pointers black when I put the white faces in, I have always thought the orange pointers looked dated. Calidude, LMC sells the printed circuits for roughly 80 bucks brand new, for that price i would just get one and see what happens. My problem is that my dead gauges have already been replaced with better, aftermarket stuff that I don't want to get rid of.

85k10383 · Apr 24, 2011

And here for all you patient folks is the finished product! See if you can spot all the stuff I did, and for you cheaters I have included some before and some really old before, before shots LOL Enjoy!