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denwood
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Audi gauges, WRX dash pod:
O2 sensor monitor:
Accusump oil pressure (charge=max cold oil pressure)
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Zeitgeist 13
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Saab gauges and ambient temp/compass readout in self-dimming mirror
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DAIZEE
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Cluster temp gauge, oil light, battery light now working so I'm just about ready to dump the on top gauges. Will keep added on tachometer for now and hopefully work out the fuel level gauge when I drop the fuel tank. I like the engine hours counter too.
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Witless Joe
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| hopefully work out the fuel level gauge when I drop the fuel tank. I like the engine hours counter too. |
Did you test whether it's the gauge, or the sender, or some fault in the wire in between them?
Pull the 14-pin connector at the instrument cluster, and test the fuel sender wire there with an ohmmeter (ie. put the ohmmeter between this wire and ground). If you get 0 or infinite resistance, then your problem is somewhere between (and including) that 14-pin connector and the tank sender (0 resistance means the wire is frayed and grounding out on something, and infinite resistance means the wire is broken and completely disconnected). Bentley will tell you the official spec for ohms @full/half/empty tank, but if it's anything other than 0 or infinite, it's probably ok. (Actually, Bentley tells you to use a VW-spec tool with weird calibration, but search this forum and you'll get the ohm ranges used by that tool).
So if you get a good ohm reading there, the sender and its wire leading up to the 14-pin connector is fine. The trouble must lie between the 14-pin connector and the fuel gauge itself... maybe the 14-pin connector itself on the cluster side, or a break in the blue foil traces, or a bad voltage stabilizer (unlikely unless the coolant gauge is screwed, too), or the fuel gauge itself is bad.
Easy peasy to narrow the location of the fault before you go to the trouble of dropping the tank. |
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joseph928
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:53 pm Post subject: Oil gauge-transmission gauge- oil temperature |
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 The top one is my Van Cafe oil pressure gauge, center one is my transmission temperature gauge, the bottom one is engine oil temperature gauge. The transmission temperature one has a high alarm that goes off with a light and sound. Everyone should at least have the oil pressure gauge! The digital gauge is $75 but will work with 9 different senders and can be used with oil pressure to. 
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akyrie
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How well can you see the pass/ side gauge? Gonna need an assistant driver to tell you when you lose oil pressure.
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Zeitgeist 13
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How well can you see the pass/ side gauge? Gonna need an assistant driver to tell you when you lose oil pressure. |
Truthfully, I can't see the lowest registers, so it might make sense to rotate it a few degrees clockwise in order to see more sweep. I still need to install the sending unit on the engine, so its a moot point right now.
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supdude
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I haven't seen this setup yet. I bent some aluminum plate to mount my tach and oil pressure. The base plate is another sheet of 6061 that uses the existing holes in the dash. I used some RAM mount bases to mount my GPS and iPod. Good setup! Easy to modify without drilling or cutting holes in your dash.
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mammonista
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:22 pm Post subject: One of a kind |
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This is a gauge cluster that I put together for 'Vanomo' a few years back. It has nine gauges in it: speedo, tach, fuel level, exhaust gas temp (1.9 td requires one of those things), volts, boost, oil pressure, water temp, and oil temp. All of the gauges just barely squeezed into the existing instrument cluster binnacle, and wiring was a bit of a challenge but I must say it works like a champ.
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mammonista
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This is a gauge cluster that I put together for 'Vanomo' a few years back. It has nine gauges in it: speedo, tach, fuel level, exhaust gas temp (1.9 td requires one of those things), volts, boost, oil pressure, water temp, and oil temp. All of the gauges just barely squeezed into the existing instrument cluster binnacle, and wiring was a bit of a challenge but I must say it works like a champ.
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volkmar
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midmo81
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From some old speaker boxes.
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Jake59
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I like the stardard location for my volt & oil pressure gauges but did not like the "downward" viewing angle. So by cuting a piece of 2" ABS pipe at an angle from near nothing on the top of the dial to about .3" at the bottom it pitches the face up to be more visible to the driver. Also show are my budget coffee mug holders. I had the flip down plastic ones found on GW but they did not last long these bike water bottle holders are simple and very durable.
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LemonCove
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VDO "cockpit international" gauges installed in dash using an aluminum plate. I used autometer slanted adapters to tilt the gauge faces towards driver. Gauges fit in recess where ash tray used to sit. VDO electric sender allows me to keep stock OP idiot lite.
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bac914
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I put mine on the A pillar. They illuminate blue as does the dash.
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ragnarhairybreeks
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I installed 3 old VDO gauges (volts, oil press, oil temp) on top of dash. Mounts screwed to rectangle of black painted aluminum plate and plate double sided taped (the foam core type) to dash.
I used 6 wire (stranded) old computer cable to wire them up to a terminal strip attached under thew stock gauges.
alistair
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kuleinc
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Gruppe B
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Hey ragnarhairybreeks
What is the name of the gyroscope cup holder that is mounted to the dash?
I used to have one in my old Audio Quattro, great conversation piece |
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