Mark & Listees

This discussion on additional gauges is a pretty good thread.  Mark or
Ken, Your gauges and housing sounds great.  Could you please post a
picture if you can.

I actually was contemplating doing the very same thing and went as far
as contacting VDO to find out if they have any special housing.  They
sent me a catalog with lots of gauges etc. The single, two and three
gauge housing is all they sell for housing.

My original concept was to find a Mistubishi Montero in a junk yard
and take the dashboard guages from that replacing theirs with the VDO
gauges/senders.  Mistu does a real nice clean job with the leather
covered dash gauges. For the leather off-roaders out there! They mount
the optional unit about where our ash tray sits so it could be done
without additional holes.

Mitsubishi has 3 gauges which includes an airplane-type directional
level compass guage for all of us SyncroHeads that may be inclined to
get lost in the sticks.

Another great gauge that I loved, is knowing what the road/outside
temperature is.  It use to be a standard VDO gauge on the SAAB Turbos
(along with the Turbo boost).  My Subaru has this guage and I
constantly check to see how cold/hot it really is outside.

Of course we no longer need the cylinder head temperature gauge which
was valuable in the old Air cooled engines.

Sounds like I need 6 gauges on my dash ;-)

E-Cheers to all of us trusting little red idiot lights.

Joel Cort
89 Syncro GL Westy performing quite well in cold Rochester

---Mark McCulley <transporter99@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I installed 3 gauges (oil pressure, oil temp, voltage) in a VDO
housing
> atop the instrument cluster. The housing is the one described by Ken
> Wilfy--it fully encloses the gauges hiding the wires for a nice clean
> appearance. My only complaint is that the lighted gauges reflect in
the
> windshield at night. I plan to fashion some kind of shade to fix this
> problem but haven't gotten around to it yet.
>
> Mark McCulley
>
>
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