I am looking for new gauges for my truck, I have a 1983 F-150 4x4 short bed with a striaght 6 and 4 speed trans, I need to replace guages with a stock replacement. My speedo does not work at the gauge, you can here the cable turn but the needle dosn't, can anyone tell me where I can find a stock replacement. Thanks.

 

The junkyard would be your best bet, I swapped out mine because I wanted one with a Tach. I have also seen them on E-bay but they seem to go alot higher than I would want to spend..

 

Make sure you do not need a new spedometer cable first.

The Cable has a plastic drive on the end where it engages and plugs into the speedometer head. It is designed to snap to prevent speedometer head wind up, and damage.

Also remove the cable and check to see if it's not damaged. Any broken cable filaments, frays or weirdness replace it.

Make sure you lubricate the cable with speedometer cable lubricant, or in a pinch, white lithium grease, to keep everything working smoothly and to prevent speedometer needle "hop".


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As for fixing a broken speedometer head, if that is your problem you have three choices.

Take your old cluster apart and Just replace the speedometer head.

Part Number for Speedometer head without trip:

E1TF-17265
2177/8-1
2292/93

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As for Instrument clusters. Any Ford Pickup or Bronco, 1981 to 1986 will have what you need. Stay away from the 1980 year model as they are not compatible.

Part number for instrument cluster WITH Gauges WITHOUT tach.

E1TF-10C956-C

Part Number for Instrument Cluster WITH Gauges and tach.

E1TF-10C956-B

The two instrument clusters mentioned above are interchangeable. So if you want to upgrade to Factory Tach, this is your chance. They just plug and play swap. The truck is already wired for tach if it has factory gauges.

Don't discriminate because of transmission either. Just swap the Automatic tranny, Shift Quadrant selector, for the blank in your old cluster. It's held on with two bolt headed screws.

Part Number for Manual Tranny "Auto Shift Selector Blank"

E0TF-7B100


Hope this helps..

 

Dan,
Sometime back maybe a year ago. A guy posted a link about buying white backed stock gauges I think they were offered on ebay. If you need only a speedo the wrecking yard is going to be your best bet. outside of ebay.

 

Thank you for your time in letting me know what to do with this, you have helped me out a bunch, thanks again