so I cut down a shoebox dash for my model a coupe and wanted to run the stock gauge cluster. I don’t care for modern gauges bolted under the dash. I’m running a Gmc 302 straight six and didn’t want to mess with the 6 volt ford gauges and senders so I gutted the oil pressure and temp units and am installing the mechanical gauges out of a 47-53 Chevy truck I had laying around. I still have to figure out how to change the numbers on the oil pressure gauge. The Chevy sweeps the opposite direction. Help here would be appreciated.
I blacked out a few numbers to see how it would do. Also had to weld up the slot on the cradle that holds the gauge to the cluster and then cut out a new mounting hole.
I used the gauges from a mid 60's Ford truck, they bolt right in the cluster. For the volt gauge I found an aftermarket gauge with the correct sweep and used the guts.