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These are the required parts for for assembling the kit that I recieved.
one 911 pressure/temp guage
sender for above guage
One early 911 guage with silver trim button
One early (pre 73 914 gas gauge)
The assembly of the guage is critical. You have to drill out the light tubes from the existing guages and epoxy them to the gauge backing assembly supplied with the kit. Since ground is supplied to the bulbs through the light tube, a mistake here means no warning light or back light. Even using the wire wheel, I had a difficult time getting continuity to the back plate. I ended up using belt and suspenders by soldering the tubes in and then expoy.
The kit wanted to be put together with an early gas gauge. I had to modify the guage back plate so that I could use a post 72 gas guage.
The guages have to be trimmed to accomdate the light tube extensions for the oil, alt, and brake lights. This was the most tedious part; cut, assemble, disassemble, trim, reassemble, repeat.
I'm happy with the result, but it still looks like a kit. Add up the cost of the parts and I think the difference is about between purchasing the gauge from Palo Alto is about $200. Add in the cost of your time hunting the parts down and assembly and it's not that much of a difference. It puts the Getty dash solution in reach.
Wait!! Isn't this how DW disease starts?
Carlos
76 2270 (running in 13 Days)
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