When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
I have a large sunco 3” tach mounted under my ashtray. Had it hose clamped to the column for years but I feel like our trucks with manual transmission being on the column kinda clutters up an otherways clutter free area.
Moved in tuhder the ash so that when the trays pulled all the way it covers up numbers from about 2800 and up. But if I’m revving the truck past that I’m probably not gonna be smoking a cigarette. Closing the tray halfway can still let me sit a cigarette in there while seeing the whole dash. I used a green bulb cap from a aftermarket set of oil/ temp/ volt gauges to tint the inside of the tach a real light green. Looks good better than the natural yellow light.
But I don’t like it. It’s unoriginal, non stock, doesn’t match any of the rest of the truck, and hanging under the dash also clutters that area. But I work thetruck out regularly. Either pulling something or climbing tall grades at various speeds. I like to be able to actually see where the engines so I can make more educated shifts. For example, there’s a hill on my way home from work. Very very steep and winding. In a residential area. With a stop sign at the bottom. So coming up the hill I like being able to see that I’m just revved enough to make the 2-3 shift mid hill without revving the crap out of it, have to catch the high rpms as they come down, and being just necessarily noisy. I also like starting it on a cold morning and being able to see right when it starts idling good and I can go back inside. I don’t like having it, but I enjoy using the information it gives
DirtyLarry79 I know what you mean, I want to know how the old girl is running. My 75 is a automatic so I dont have to make proper shifts but I just want to know how hard im working her. I would love to put in the analog Dakota gauges but dang who has that kind of money.
Tach looks ok on the column and is how most were added back in the day when I was a teen and easy an cheap helps , I like Dakota Digital Black Alloy & Blue VHX Gauge Kit and one day might buy it but for now the column is good
Rezvani's Latest Post-Apocalytic Monster Is a Ford F-150 Raptor Underneath
Slideshow: Called the Fortress, the 850-horsepower pickup combines Raptor underpinnings with military-inspired features, survival equipment, and a starting price of $285,000.
