Dashboard instruments.

hughybabes · Post by **hughybabes** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:10 pm

In my 1983 owners manual it shows two dash board clusters. One is like mine with the telltale graphic monitor for 4wd etc.
The other has tachometer, voltmeter,oil pressure gauge.......did these come into Australia????
Want more instrumentation, now that carbs have been reco'ed and we are running very sweetly indeed.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:17 pm

what ? resleeving the throttle spindles fixed your carby problem ?

ooh, was speaking to a fella the other day who had a car in storage with a mate EA81 twin carb twin port - thinks it got crushed !! ouch

hughybabes · Post by **hughybabes** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:41 pm

Hi there Jono. Yes ....throttle shafts AND air screw up near emulsion tube on one carby missing, tangs on floats not allowing fuel to flow in at required rate, bit of incorrectly plumbed vacuum.....
Now back with the electronic dizzy and running very smoothly and very fast. Want to know the revs when I'm still climbing in 2nd at about 90km/h.
Very knowledgeable and approachable guy at The Carby Shop in Wantirna, Melbourne, for anyone who needs quality carby work.

stinky · Post by **stinky** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:45 pm

sounds like the dash I have for the '82 leone sedan ... was originally 2wd. has a digital clock, voltmeter, tacho, oil pressure, speed.

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Sun May 14, 2006 10:22 pm

You mean like the ones in the imports ?

There is one for sale in the parts section

hughybabes · Post by **hughybabes** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:47 am

Is that the one from the RX turbo? Is that photo like the one being sold?
Looks like it might drop into an MY dash??? Mmmm Thanks for the tip

Fang · Post by **Fang** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:25 pm

That's L-Series only sorry fellas

There was a fancy pants MY cluster that with volts and oil pressure that sold on eBay recently. I think it went for all of $5

hughybabes · Post by **hughybabes** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:54 pm

Bugger

85wrx · Post by **85wrx** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:47 pm

I was the lucky one to pick up that cluster. Works perfect no faults at all.

hughybabes · Post by **hughybabes** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:02 pm

Well done !! It fits into an MY, no problems? Did it have a tacho as well?
There wouldn't be too many of them around I bet !!

Fang · Post by **Fang** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:43 pm

Thats a good find 85wrx.. congrats - can't believe it went for $5

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:27 pm

five bucks !! yeah, he's not telling us the postage was the killer, after all it was on ebay !! God, I paid $40 for a normal cluster !!

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:32 pm

90 in second !! only horsepower is up that end, you want torque don't you and that nowhere near the redline - 90 ? ouch !!

I use an aural tach - been faithful so far - and they are wireless.

got anyone with a gps to test your speedo accuracy ?

that is good to hear the carbies are sorted, really good actually

mattl200 · Post by **mattl200** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:00 pm

do u mean on of these

out of an my leonie glf5 2wd sedan

can be put into a wagon or brumby but u need to swap the whole dash and dashboard wireing loom as the plugs are differant to the back of the cluster

and the dash has no 4wd or lo range lights in the cluster
unless it came out of an 83 my wagon

hughybabes · Post by **hughybabes** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:44 am

I was after the simplest "old cluster out", "new cluster in" procedure. Doing the complete dashboard sounds like a nightmare job. Think I will be getting a tacho to stick on the dashboard.
Going bush this weekend,Jono, with my Magellan GPS. Will report back on speedo accuracy next week

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:13 am

aww, not on the dash. You've got some real rice power under the bonnet now, surely that entitles you to stick a multitude of gauges on the plenum grille just outside the windscreen :P

MY_STI · Post by **MY_STI** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:15 am

A 2" tacho fits nicely where the clock is normally in the standard cluster, I did this before fitting the 'GLF' dash, little bit more work than simply bolting a tacho to the dash but well worth it imho.

subaru must have though this looked ok as well, can grab pics of my custom effort and the stock one as well.

The GLF clusters arnt to hard to come by, its the dash 'boards' that are always ratty

and the dash has no 4wd or lo range lights in the cluster
unless it came out of an 83 my wagon

82 touring wagon, cept the 4wd light is acting as the centre diff lock light

hughybabes · Post by **hughybabes** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:31 pm

Thanks for all the input fellas. The GLF dashboard is the one from the L series as pictured earlier in the posts; am I right.
Yes MY-STI, I wouldn't mind seeing pics of your "before and after" clusters. (I'm talking dash boards here....) Ive got another MY cluster that I could practice with; I would like to keep the one I've got now with over 500,000 km on it.
Cant help smiling to myself as I read yours, Jono. I could have a scoop in the bonnet to fit an original Suby twin carb air cleaner box, (but not the correct one; it sits too high) and a pod of instruments on the plenum !! Ha Ha Ha !!!
I like to keep it as a sleeper.....but then a tacho on the dash....... mmmmm

mattl200 · Post by **mattl200** » Tue May 16, 2006 9:10 pm

no the dash in the picture is out of an my

and deprnding on the year of the car and dash it can be as easy as just pluging in the loom.

Brad wrote:You mean like the ones in the imports ?

There is one for sale in the parts section

this one is from an l series

maudsland · Post by **maudsland** » Wed May 17, 2006 6:53 pm

got some bad news for you in installing that dash you got from ebay. firstly you need to get the correct dash mold as it is different from the stabndard dash and secondly the oil pressure gauge needs the correct type of sender to make it work as iv'e got the same dash in the brumby and subaru quoted me $124 bucks for one. guess what,,,,,,,, my gauge still does'nt work