F500 Cluster?
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Laughing Gas
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So lets say I check it out and it's got a chrome cluster in good shape. It looks like the windows are intact. You never know the interior might be in good shape. Should I snag just the cluster? Some of it's wiring?
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If you get the cluster you should definitely get a decent amount of the wiring so you can splice it in. I haven't seen one sell on eBay in awhile unless it's damn near mint don't expect to get anywhere near 100 for it. I bought multiple of them for .99 each haha
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Yeah, $100 for a perfect one is usually what I see, but please snag it if it's in half decent shape. Someone will want it. No sense letting it get scrapped.
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Might've been NOS or 100% perfect. The ones with all the gauges go for more than the ones with blanks, and the ones with both switches on the left also go for more.
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Just in case Crazed doesn't, if I remember correctly Area351 had extra(s). But I haven't seen him around in a long time.
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Do you have a link to his profile? I'd like to send one in to have it retrofitted with modern gauges.
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Originally Posted by crazed87bronco14725618
If you get the cluster you should definitely get a decent amount of the wiring so you can splice it in. I haven't seen one sell on eBay in awhile unless it's damn near mint don't expect to get anywhere near 100 for it. I bought multiple of them for .99 each haha
If you have a '70-'72 model truck (printed circuit board cluster) you need the connectors and a short length of the big truck's main wiring harness to splice it into the main wiring harness of the '70-'72 F-100 through F-350. However, any '67-'69 F-100 through F-350 truck will also have the same needed connectors to cut a pigtail from the main wiring harness to connect to the big truck cluster, if it was being installed in a '70-'72 light duty truck.
At some point (possibly '77 or '78) the big trucks also had a printed circuit board instrument cluster.
You can see the circular impressions of this cluster stamping, indicating this an F-500/ cluster with printed circuit board.
This is one of the coolest (modified) big truck clusters I've seen.
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^YES! That's kind of what I'm after. I want round gauges but the F600 cluster is the only way to do that while still maintaining an OEM appearance. Do you know who owns that cluster? I'd like to ask them some questions.