ElectronicsNeed help wiring something up? Thinking of adding an electrical component to your car? Need help troubleshooting that wiring glitch?
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Looking to take the 140 speedo gauge with attatched chip-board and putting it into my '88 bird. Question lies there, gauge and board is out of an 85, and my car is an '88. Anyone know for sure this will not work? And what makes the guage coordinated to the 140 reading? The chip board or the hardware on the back of the guage itself? And how easy is it to swap out odemeters? Don't want to deal with manually keeping track of miles and deal with odometer fraud the next time i forget to say that the mileage is off. I tried a search of "changing speedometer" and "changing odometer", both with no results to what i'm doing, not to mention most people just want to swap the entire cluster, so any help is appreciated! Thanks.
Jon
__________________ 1988 Bare t-topped Firebird L03/ WC T5/ Open drum 3.08 - - > Gunmetal LT1/T56 powered GTA with LS1 4:10 rear disks to boot.
83 Daytona 500 Trans Am pace car, 1 of 2500 built, will be revived...pics coming soon!
92 Heritage RS Camaro, one of ~8200 in counting, will hopefully be running in time for NYThirdGen 4th of July car cruise on Deer Park Ave, LI.
Jut put the speedo head (or the entire cluster) into your car. It's that simple, but you need the driver board above the gauge as well for it to work.
As for the odometer, take the needle and 2 screws out of the gauge face (mark the needle position first so you can put it back in the right place later or you'll spend either weeks or months trying to get the speedo right), take the gauge face and the plexiglass light diverter behind it off, take out the screws holding the odometer assembly in place, undo the motor from this, and take it out. Do the same to your other gauge and swap the odometers.
__________________ Dan V.
Project Raven is on hold... She's a body shell with a rather large collection of parts. 1987 Pontiac Firebird, T-top, 1991 VIN T engine, getting MegaSquirted. 85 T-5 5-Speed manual trans. Hybrid 3100 V6 swap nearly complete, too much body work to do first . Restomod in progress. So many parts to replace, so little money .
actually as of recently, the car was taken off the road, this is one of the things i plan on doing in the near future. As far as putting in after market guages, not sure how smoothly that will work in a factory cluster. As soon as i have completed the switch, i will bring back results if it is truely a bolt in procedure.
. Restomod in progress. So many parts to replace, so little money 
