Pics of tachs installed

[71 LONG BED]

I used an old AutoMeter tach I had from years ago. I had to take it out of it's original housing because the flange was smaller than the opening. So I made a bezal for it at work out of aluminum.

[1967AceStroker]

[bumpside]

Sun tach.

[Fordnatic]

I have one of the truck panels and clusters....what is involved in hooking up the factory gauges? I had always planned on installing aftermarket gauges, but if it's not too much trouble to get the factory ones to work I may do that.

[SteveC]

it really depends on the year of the truck.67-79 f600 panels will work just that the 70-79 have the printed circuit board instead of wiring.
my 67 all i did was change my harness over from my orginal panel and it worked the 67-69 that have the wiring on the back of the panel are pretty much plug and play execpt for a few color changes maybe.

70-79 round gauge panels ..like i stated before have the printed circuit board and may require a bit of wiring but nothing all that hard.

hope that helps you out some

Btw the round gauges jsut look awsome in our trucks

[MadMaxetc]

Here is mine for now.

[69timemachine]

Here's mine:

http://www.fordification.com/forum/down ... &mode=view

I got it from Summit Racing for $130, and it even came with the shift light. I like the gauges on the face because it keeps me from having to drill holes in my dash and have the other gauges hanging around under it (and still have a tach on the column too). It just takes a little getting used to reading gauges within a gauge, but it's fine once you get used to the layout. I even teed in the oil and temp sending units to where the factory temp gauge and oil idiot light would still work normally.

I originally wanted to do the same setup like td has, but with a mini shift light added between the big gauges. That was going to cost me around $600 with the gauges, LED indicators, harness, and shift light. The Summit tach is a nice compromise in my opinion. Good luck with whatever you choose!

[peanutman]

Here's where i put mine. It's an autozone special.

[tuff4rd]

Here is a day & night shots of my Sun tach..