78-83 Regal full gauges wiring plug???

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HAFROD

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Guys, my 80 Regal only has the upper gauges. I have all the gauges, housing, and circuit board from a full gauge dash. I want to make it a full gauge car. Do I have to swap wires around in the main wiring plug for printed circuit board or are they there already? I've had to swap wires on the plugs in the past for my El Camino and Cutlass Salon when I went to full gauges
 

81cutlass

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So you have a Turbo Regal dash with the boost and temp gauge? Or did Buick make a non turbo dash with full gages?

To answer, no. But there will be wires missing for the boost gauge and possible location of the check engine light and stuff changed in the dash itself BUT the didnt need to be repinned.

I installed a 78 sport couple cluster in my 80 Century dash.

On a Cutlass you have to repin it, but a Buick, at least my 78 cluster in a 80 dash, it didn't need any repinning.


My turbo dash cluster had some rough life in the past on the boost gage pod, and I'm missing something, but the only differences were 2 additional contacts on the bottom strip 3rd and 4th in from the left. They went directly to the boost gage


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Tuffregal83

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I installed a sport gauge set up in my 83 regal that was originally had to 3 gauges sport gauge I picked up out of the junkyard years ago had the voltage and the temperature and it plugged right in and the volts works can't remember if the temperature works might have to get the proper sending unit to make it work
 
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