Re: Very lucky Clock/Tach EBay purchase
Yes Clarke, that's correct; both gauges are front loaded.
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Re: Very lucky Clock/Tach EBay purchase
The pic of the strap on the Tach is an incorrect way of mounting, that should not even be viewed as an example of how to mount any of these gauges rather of an example of how not too! If you look at the face of the Tach it completely covers up the bezel looking like a real "cobb job"!
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Re: Very lucky Clock/Tach EBay purchase
After three years of periodically checking in I finally got a hold of the guy I met at a swap meet, who lives a fews hours away. He's going to make one final showing at the Sunflower Swap Meet, then he's retiring.
I sent him pictures of the dealer installed battery meter and tach. He has the battery meter. :thumbsup: He said he has five boxes of tachs, but he has to looks through for the one I'm looking for. He said he has at least one or two with the red football. Anyway, I'm going to make arrangements to meet him at the swap meet. Question for you guys... Where does the box for the tach install? On the passengerside inner fenderwell? Near the battery regulator (or whatever it's called)? |
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I suspect there is no "standard" location for the tach transmitter. It was probably just a decision whoever installed it made. In my Dad's Suburban the shop at Sauder-Lygrisse installed it before he took delivery of it. They hid it behind the triangular "wing" on the driver's side that goes from the top of the grille support up to the top of the radiator support. |
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Re: Very lucky Clock/Tach EBay purchase
Funky61 you're right about the instructions, the old GMC accessory literature mentions that. Prime examples of mounting correctly are 1960HDGMC and GMCNUT whose bezels are cut out for more chrome and gauge face to show, page 18 of the 1966 GMC Owner's Manual has an illustration of this showing the whole dash for purpose of AC controls. I have found another way of making the clock sit more forward by removing the chrome bezel and mounting it in the cluster without it to make the adjustment knob easier to access, I'll post some pics later.
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Here are some pics of the Borg/Studebaker clock compared to the GMC/Borg clock
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I just bought a factory clock out of a Studebaker Golden Hawk and it was the exact same as the GMC version - mine is not like the one you show on the right, so it might need to be out of the right Studebaker year or model to be the same one used in GMC's.....
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Can you send a pic of your clock?
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