Triple gauge... need some ideas, might be making a batch Options

[si2t3m]

Hi all,

Had to pull the tripe gauge cluster out again as a wire on the fuel gauge got loose and shorted.

The backplate itself is pretty easy to fabricate (as i have mine as a template). I'd improve the backplate design so it accepts a 74-75 fuel instrument instead of the older ones. The change regards the way that the connectors for the instruments are installed on the back plate. The 74-75 ones have the connectors built in the body of the instrument instead of the cheezy remote connectors that hold on the backplate by bending the connector tabs against some orangish cardboard and hoping that they will not move & short.

The ideas i need regards the face plate. I'm trying to locate some material that could be used to fabricate it. Well, the same material that is used for these:

Gauge faces

The gauge face that came in the triple gauge kit needed that you cut the tabs from an existing gauge face and glue them onto the new face plate. This allowed to keep the gauge face at a certain distance of the glass. After a while, the tabs either unglue, and fall. I'd go with a smaller OD for the new faceplate and it could be glued to an old faceplate (with the middle of it cut out).

One thing, the actual openings for the gauges and the lights on the faceplate are rouded out. The face plate goes down a bit near the openings for th gauges and the lights (Hard to explain with my poor english!). I don't think this could be reproduced so the face plate would be completely flat.

Anyways, if some of you have ideas regarding the material that could be used for the faceplate, i'd probably go into getting a batch made.

Marc-André

[Dave_Darling]

Pelican's were powder-coated. If you can hunt down an address for Don Haney (no longer with Pelican), he can probably give you details. Maybe Glen Sager (a914luvr at earthlink dot net) knows?

M-A, the idea of allowing for the later fuel gauge modules is very good. I drilled my backing plate (same pattern as for the temp and pressure gauge modules) to allow for that, and it was pretty easy. And I agree that the whole "cut the tabs off and glue them on the new plate" thing was not the best thought-out design, but it did work.


B, PA Speedo makes specific gauge modules that are smaller than the standard 911 ones. They use the correct paint/powder/whatever and silk screen the text. They don't use existing gauge modules the way the kit did.

--DD