is it possible to take a speedometer from like a 73ish chevy or the meters that went to 100mph and put it in my 85 c10... would it read correct? ________ Problems With Zoloft
i have also played with swapping gages out of the era trucks you can do it but you have to watch what you have vrs what you want I.E. oil presure as for the speedometer i believe it should work correctly. Its been a few years since ive done it and never paid too much attion to it ( never went by a speed trap trailer to calculate) find out if the speedometer is calibrated itself. hope that helped (at least alittle)73-79chevy350
if full gauges yes you can swap out the speedos but some may read in K/m after 81 in the usa or if it's from canada and has 7 digits it K/m if it's 6 it's in Miles. same goes for the oil gauges in PSI or KPA water temp is another F or C BUT AMP and VOLTS are not inner changeable unless you do dash and fuse wiring because "fire if you plug and play with these"73-75 AMPs, 76-87 VOLTs. 73-80 mechanical oil pressure, 81-87 electric oil pressure. oh 81-87 plastic neddles 73-80 alum. neddles
speedo swap You can switch the speedos, the needles my be a different color, but thats it. If you have problems calibrating the speedo you will need to change the small plastic gear where the speedo cable goes into the transmission.
You should just do like I did and take out the gauges completely and put in Dakota Digitals! They look killer at night!!!! Well worth the high cost.
I'm not sure about the speedometer gauges, but the fuel gauges will not indicate correctly if it's a few years off. 1/2 tank indication = empty tank on mine.
Here's a picture of them in right after I got the dash done before i put the carpet in the truck. You can kind of see them on but with the angle it's somewhat hard to tell. I don't have any at night yet but you can imagine how cool it is from this picture.
Ok if you change the gas you should make sure the gas is the same size takeas you had, But the Gas gauge should not mater, " because the sending unit would be the problem different size tanks different sending units " or bad gauge, bad ground, bad leads, bad + connection gauge.
