Camaro tach that everyone can love.

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How did you deal with the wiring and the PCB without losing the dash lights?

I have a feeling the Tach wires up like any ol tach 12v, tach signal, ground.
But how did you deal with the PCB on the back og the gauge cluster without having to sacrifice the Dash lights?

And yet alone how to wire the fuel guage?
 

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Someone sent me a pm. I had forgotten about this thread. I will see if I can find the pics.

~Tyler
 

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Someone sent me a pm. I had forgotten about this thread. I will see if I can find the pics.

~Tyler

Thanks!
I have an old gauge cluster I can toy around with for this mod.
 

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Bad news. They were on my old computer that peed the carpet. :sorry:

Good news is, I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have. It's really not very hard. Reading my directions without pictures makes it sound much harder than it is lol. Everything is pretty straight forward except mounting the small gauges. The trick for them is to separate all your gauge faces from the drivers, truck and camaro. Then make a gauge face sandwich, truck on bottom, camaro on top. This gives you the mounting holes of the truck gauges but the face of the camaro gauges. Then I rewired all the gauges manually because they were no longer in their original spots so the factory pcb wouldn't work. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what to wire where, but it is pretty easy to figure out. Just trace the pcb from there the gauge used to be to its terminal wire.

Send me a pm if you have more questions or you can e-mail me at "my GM square body user name"@msn.com

~Tyler
 

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Bad news. They were on my old computer that peed the carpet. :sorry:

Good news is, I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have. It's really not very hard. Reading my directions without pictures makes it sound much harder than it is lol. Everything is pretty straight forward except mounting the small gauges. The trick for them is to separate all your gauge faces from the drivers, truck and camaro. Then make a gauge face sandwich, truck on bottom, camaro on top. This gives you the mounting holes of the truck gauges but the face of the camaro gauges. Then I rewired all the gauges manually because they were no longer in their original spots so the factory pcb wouldn't work. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what to wire where, but it is pretty easy to figure out. Just trace the pcb from there the gauge used to be to its terminal wire.

Send me a pm if you have more questions or you can e-mail me at "my GM square body user name"@msn.com

~Tyler

How did you deal with the wiring and the PCB without losing the dash lights?

I have a feeling the Tach wires up like any ol tach 12v, tach signal, ground.
But how did you deal with the PCB on the back og the gauge cluster without having to sacrifice the Dash lights?

And yet alone how to wire the fuel gauge?

I am mainly wanting to move the fuel gauge onto the tach and install that tach in place where my big fuel gauge is currently....
 

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when it's all finished, you put the pcb with gauge lights back on but you remove the clip connectors that attach to the gauge pins.
 

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How would this work with a dual tank setup? It seems like my factory fuel gauge is stuck at 1/4 tank all the time... And I would like a tach.
 

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I picked up a Camaro cluster down in Georgia over Easter. I'm going to pick up a second Square Body cluster to do the tach conversion on and leave my original as-is. I'll take pics and post them up once I get into it.
 

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diggin this one up again. Instead of a clock, I'd like to see a vacuum or trans temp gauge, if not both. If I don't mess with updating to say a 96'ish cluster, I might try this one.
 

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diggin this one up again. Instead of a clock, I'd like to see a vacuum or trans temp gauge, if not both. If I don't mess with updating to say a 96'ish cluster, I might try this one.

the vac gauges were on the bigger c60 sized trucks. I posted a link on the craigslist thread about a week ago with one. wasn't sure if it was as rare as the seller was claiming. HRPC supplied the details on it. it did have a tach and the vac gauge, but I have no idea on interchangeability with the light duty squares.
 

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They look fantastic. I got a cable speedo so I can't do it.
 

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Any idea what's the part number for that tachometer? What year Camaro it came out of? Clean fit and compliment the speedometer.
 

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