DiPricol Gauges
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Yes, I technically am, just dont practice it much. I help with the setup, and tear down in the summer on field day, but thats about as far as I go haha. The kenwood ham radio up top, is nice because I can dial a freq, and use it. Which is much faster then getting the computer out, and reprogramming one of the other two. You cant see it, but theres actually a third remote mount radio, mounted below the headlight switch. TK-8150. Yes, I have a busy dashboard.
EDIT: Generally speaking, I use all that radio equiptment for work. (still building, maintaining a couple of counties public safety systems, IE police, fire, ems)
EDIT: Generally speaking, I use all that radio equiptment for work. (still building, maintaining a couple of counties public safety systems, IE police, fire, ems)
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Terminator Engineering
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I don't need any adapters. Not sure what you mean there. I already have three DiPricol gauges in my 4-gauge pod, so I already have boost, tranny temp, and EGT gauges in. Those need to monitored in real time, all the time in a tuned truck, IMHO. Plus I like analog gauges so I can know what's happening with the truck out of the corner of my eye by needle position "in the heat of battle" instead of having to take my eyes off the road and "read" the numbers for any amount of time. I think it's a perfect solution for folks like me that don't want 17 gauges mounted all over the truck, but still want to be able to see everything occasionally. I'll probably monitor oil temp and HPOP pressure most of the time with it. The other VERY cool thing is that it reads & clears codes, and does cylinder contribution & buzz tests! Kind of like having AE without the cost or need for a laptop!! 
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I don't need any adapters. Not sure what you mean there. I already have three DiPricol gauges in my 4-gauge pod, so I already have boost, tranny temp, and EGT gauges in. Those need to monitored in real time, all the time in a tuned truck, IMHO. Plus I like analog gauges so I can know what's happening with the truck out of the corner of my eye by needle position "in the heat of battle" instead of having to take my eyes off the road and "read" the numbers for any amount of time. I think it's a perfect solution for folks like me that don't want 17 gauges mounted all over the truck, but still want to be able to see everything occasionally. I'll probably monitor oil temp and HPOP pressure most of the time with it. The other VERY cool thing is that it reads & clears codes, and does cylinder contribution & buzz tests! Kind of like having AE without the cost or need for a laptop!!
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Don't you have to have different adapters added to it for things like fuel pressure, oil pressure, coolant temp., etc? Maybe I have that all wrong. I already have the same gauges that you have, and I was thinking along the same lines as you were about not having so many gauges in the truck.
The only one I'm concerned with is coolant temp. I'd like to be able to monitor that, and I hear that auto-tranny trucks (like mine!) have issues with their PCM reading coolant temps. I've seen posts recently where it reads some ludicrous max temp like 400F or something stupid, so I might see if there's a sensor I can put in to read that. That's the only issue I'm aware of....
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NOPE! That's the beauty of it! The gauge reads from OBD-II port, except for certain things that the PCM doesn't monitor, like EGT for example. I'm not sure what else it would need to read separately -- maybe Boost so you can use a regulator to keep the PCM from defueling at 25psi. But you and I already have those problems solved by having dedicated gauges.
The only one I'm concerned with is coolant temp. I'd like to be able to monitor that, and I hear that auto-tranny trucks (like mine!) have issues with their PCM reading coolant temps. I've seen posts recently where it reads some ludicrous max temp like 400F or something stupid, so I might see if there's a sensor I can put in to read that. That's the only issue I'm aware of....
The only one I'm concerned with is coolant temp. I'd like to be able to monitor that, and I hear that auto-tranny trucks (like mine!) have issues with their PCM reading coolant temps. I've seen posts recently where it reads some ludicrous max temp like 400F or something stupid, so I might see if there's a sensor I can put in to read that. That's the only issue I'm aware of....
Nice. I'm definitely going to look into one of these because it is way more cost effective than buying all of the other gauges.
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BTW here is a night shot of the gauges
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they sell some green tinted ones at autozone that were perfect but I think the paint fell off because they are looking pretty white lately.
They a few different ones that were green, I will have to try a different kind and hope they work better. The ones I bought have a yellow colored cardboard packaging. Not sure of the brand though.
They a few different ones that were green, I will have to try a different kind and hope they work better. The ones I bought have a yellow colored cardboard packaging. Not sure of the brand though.
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They had green tint covers to go over the white light but it made it to dim so Iam trying to figure out plan B now lol
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That's why I didn't like the white face gauges in our trucks. They look out of place, IMHO. The DiPricols look like the stock cluster. The ISS Pros have a black face with green back light that look pretty close if you need a type of gauge that DiPricol doesn't make.
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