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
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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.
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The H1L-2 Raven:
1987 Pontiac Firebird, T-top
Bone Stock Except for the Following:
1991 VIN T engine, harness and ECM. Yes, I have VATS! ('730 harness is out for inspections due to problems, running on stock '302 system for now )
1984 Base Taillights
Overhead console from an 86 Berlinetta
90-92 Z/28 rear deck spoiler with HMSL delete
Eclipse CD-5435 MP3/WMA Headunit, 50Wx4 with iPC-106 iPod controller
Sony 4x6" 120W Front Speakers
Clarion 220W 3-way 6x9 Rear Speakers
Distinct (Crossfire) DVC 12" subs with Distinct 700W amp in prefab 82-92 F-body hatch box, 130+ dB (when working right)
Factory 700R4 replaced with 85 T-5 5-Speed manual trans, .76:1 OD.
Engine: 3.1L LH0 with off-the shelf air intake and a Cherry Bomb 2.25" Muffler.
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.
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