F-series switches and F600 dashes

[theotherstyle]

Hi all, I'm pretty new to the site and am picking up a '70 F100 as soon as cash permits. The long and short of what I'll be doing to it is making a custom shop truck out of it while keeping it looking mostly stock or era correct.

First up, can anyone provide clear pictures of the switches on the F100's? The truck I'm buying I did a full walkaround but some of my pics came out less than stellar (flash on chrome = DOH) and the truck is several hours away, can't exactly run down the road for new pics . For some of the equipment I'm planning to install I want to use switches that resemble the factory switches, if not repurpose some factory switches themselves. I'm still looking through the gallery, but I haven't gotten all the way through yet.

Next, I was at the junkyard yesterday and scored a nice condition F600 dash from what read off like a '61. Tag was hard to read, it could have been '67. I forgot to bring my camera with me so I didn't get any pictures to remember things with, DOH!
Here's the panel I came home with


If anyone is looking for F600 gauges, the truck still had the cluster installed, and the inner bezel and glass was still there as well. If anyone wants them, I would be happy to take a trip back there and pick them up.

I've already hunted down all the info on here I could find about the stock gauges, and I think I will be going with some aftermarket unit's instead of stock. But I figured I know where some desirable parts are, might as well share with folks that would want them.

[68sportcustom]

Great find! Where are you located? If you're in the Pacific Northwest I'd be interested in some F600 front fenders and would love to know where the junkyard is...

[theotherstyle]

Forgot to add info to my profile. I'm in Elkhorn, Wi and the yard I frequent is just south of Milwaukee.

I'm still looking through the galleries as well as the pictures I took of my future truck. It looks like the switches are (in this order) headlights, ignition, wiper/washer, emergency, choke (if it's in the dash, on mine it's on a bracket under the heater controls), and the lighter. Is this correct? Are there any other switches that may have been equipped in these trucks?

[theotherstyle]

Do have one question about the F600 gauges. Did those clusters ever come with a volt meter instead of an ammeter? If I have the possibility of replacing the ammeter with a voltmeter I might make use of the F600 panel. If this info has been posted in a past thread, I apologize for missing it.

[69rangerf100]

here is what mine looks like still have the stock gauges in




will try and get the pics of the rest of it my phone kept shutting down when i would take the pics

[70_F100]

It looks like the switches are (in this order) headlights, ignition, wiper/washer, emergency, choke (if it's in the dash, on mine it's on a bracket under the heater controls), and the lighter.

Correct, except for the choke. 70 F100's had an automatic choke. Your choke cable has been added.

Did those clusters ever come with a volt meter instead of an ammeter?

To the best of my knowledge, those clusters never came with a volt meter. If you're putting aftermarket gauges in yours, it shouldn't be a problem to wire in a volt meter.

[theotherstyle]

It looks like the switches are (in this order) headlights, ignition, wiper/washer, emergency, choke (if it's in the dash, on mine it's on a bracket under the heater controls), and the lighter.

Correct, except for the choke. 70 F100's had an automatic choke. Your choke cable has been added.

Did those clusters ever come with a volt meter instead of an ammeter?

To the best of my knowledge, those clusters never came with a volt meter. If you're putting aftermarket gauges in yours, it shouldn't be a problem to wire in a volt meter.

Yeah I know how to wire in gauges, I was just kinda hoping to maybe reuse the F600 cluster if I could find a stock voltmeter. I'm planning on installing a 3g alt and methinks that'll just blow out the ammeter