So, for my B-day, I got new gauges for the Vanchero, a coolant temp, tranny temp, oil pressure and tachometer. So, here's how I decided to mount them.
The virgin dash.


Removed the cover.


The wife measuring for the mount locations of the gauges.


Some of the wires ran.


Me pulling out some of the dash from the hole saw.


Filing down some of the edges of the holes.


Some of the wiring done on the back of the gauges. Notice some of the clearancing I had to do on the dash.

 

More wiring, more clearance. I recommend thinking through how you are going to run the wires so it looks somewhat clean. Also, notice the brackets that come with the gauges to hold them in place. They came with templates to work with the angled sleeves (you'll see them later), but I would not recommend using the templates, the measurements were wrong and the brackets ended up being too short. I ended up having to clearance them to avoid the bolts for the wiring.


All mounted up, here you can see the angled sleeves. I still need find a way to install the new stereo.





Here you can see how I T'ed the oil pressure sending unit. For all of these, I just took the sending units, as well as the cordinating hoses (for the coolant and tranny temp sending units) to Home Depot and got them matched up.



Coolant temp sending unit T'ed in.



Tranny temp sending unit T'ed in.



Here's the Tachometer mounted. Notice how I ran the wiring, I spent a lot of time to make sure it is clean and tight.





So, that's about it. Took two days, maybe 9 hours total. I wasted a lot of time having to rerun the wires a couple of times, go into the Tach a couple of times, etc. The good news is, I now can track what's going on with the truck. Here's what I found out.
The RPMs are 2500 at 55 mph and 2800 at 65 mph.
Oil pressure was 48 at 2500 RPMs and 12 at idle, around 600 PRMs.
Temp held steady at 190.
Tranny temp bearly registered, but it wasn't that long of a drive.
Anyways, that's it. Let me know what you think.

MoMo

 

LeadDoggy think you did a great job!

 

Nice Job!!
I need to let your Mrs and You work on mine one weekend.