Too cold to diagnose the white smoke so I worked on the gage cluster.
I didn't care to have a clock in the dash since I will have one in the radio, and I wanted a tach, so let's get this started!
Had my 80 century cluster which is not being used at all
The 78 turbo regal cluster which I am using most of
Bought an 82 regal cluster out of a salvage yard which had the VSS output
82 regal speedometer is going in the 78 turbo regal cluster
1st I gutted one of the stock clock pods and bought a $32 bosch tach from autozone
Pulled it out of the bezel and ground the needle off
Removed the dial
The dial doesn't line up perfectly, oddly enough the hash marks dont look even on the bosch gage, drilled holes in the clock bezel
Cut the needle off one of the other speedometers
Needle, meet tach
Drilled it out
Bam!
Straight from china
Looks factory!
I didn't care to have a clock in the dash since I will have one in the radio, and I wanted a tach, so let's get this started!
Had my 80 century cluster which is not being used at all
The 78 turbo regal cluster which I am using most of
Bought an 82 regal cluster out of a salvage yard which had the VSS output
82 regal speedometer is going in the 78 turbo regal cluster
1st I gutted one of the stock clock pods and bought a $32 bosch tach from autozone
Pulled it out of the bezel and ground the needle off
Removed the dial
The dial doesn't line up perfectly, oddly enough the hash marks dont look even on the bosch gage, drilled holes in the clock bezel
Cut the needle off one of the other speedometers
Needle, meet tach
Drilled it out
Bam!
Straight from china
Looks factory!