Slick 60's

Added a aluminum gauge pod to my truck.
Had to cope it a little to match the steering column.

Looks nice!

Where'd you get the two gauges that are in your dash?

I bought a instrument panel from a Slick 60's member.
It came from an F-800.
It has tach, vacuum, amp and oil pressure.

Those are pretty cool, but I was askin about the big round ones on either side of your speedo.

looks good but wondering about the pyrometer or is there a forge in the bed and thats how you tell its temp

ThinLizzy13 wrote:Those are pretty cool, but I was askin about the big round ones on either side of your speedo.

tach and vaccuum gauges from big trucks f500,600 etc.
vac on left, tach on right

theres also a big air pressure gauge for trucks with air brakes

ThinLizzy13 wrote:Those are pretty cool, but I was askin about the big round ones on either side of your speedo.

Vacuum left side of speedo.
Tach right side of speedo.
Standard equipment on F-800.

ICEMAN6166 wrote:looks good but wondering about the pyrometer or is there a forge in the bed and thats how you tell its temp

LOL!

Pyro and fuel pressure gauges in preparation of Cummins swap.

I will convert the vacuum gauge to pressure and use it for a boost gauge.

Blackwaterforge wrote: in preparation of Cummins swap.

just what you need.
6bt with nv trans

ICEMAN6166 wrote:just what you need.
6bt with nv trans

Ice: I am going to use a 4BT with a borg warner T-19 and a Watson auxiliary.

Ah ok I see now

Are those tachs gear drive? I would like to have a set like that but not sure how to do the gear drive. Did the 332 FE in the old trucks have a dizzy with the gear drive for the tach? Wonder how hard it would be to find all of this stuff. Wonder what it would cost!!!

Mellvis wrote:Are those tachs gear drive? I would like to have a set like that but not sure how to do the gear drive. Did the 332 FE in the old trucks have a dizzy with the gear drive for the tach? Wonder how hard it would be to find all of this stuff. Wonder what it would cost!!!

Tach is electric.
I don't know about the FE engines but there was a distributor with a tach drive for the 300 6 cylinders.

332,361,391 etc. is not FE but FT there are differences. the tach on those is gear driven off the distributor.
in the salvage yard look for cabovers and bigger trucks to find the FTs

Are the FT and FE parts generally interchangeable? Not to concerned since that tach is electrical, but curious.

Nice work on the aluminum panel. fits well, like it was meant to go there.

I always thought those tachs were mechanical? Should have paid closer attention!

FT dizzy will not fit in a FE block. The base of the FT dizzy gear is larger than the FE.

Look's Good.

Lonnie

You can get the tachs electrically driven and higher rpm range from the bronco vendors now. A member on here has done it and it looked great.

Black water forge, did you hook up the vac gauge? I have one but there is no tee on the back of the gauge just a hole?!

supposed to be a fitting on the back, takes 1\4" brake line about 6" long then a rubber hose to the fitting on the intake manifold.