Modified gauge cluster

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Craig Burriss

Craig Burriss

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I was originally planning on keeping the stock gauges in my Duster, but then I did an ammeter bypass, then the speedometer broke, and the fuel/temp gauges never worked to begin with. I don’t like having gauges thrown all over the car so I’ve decided to make it how I want it.
I haven’t started the operation yet but whenever I get over this flu it’s going under the knife (or Dremel).
From all of the pictures I’ve seen of custom/aftermarket clusters, everyone has 2 large gauges, and 4 smaller ones. For my plans I want 2 large and 5 smaller gauges. I ordered some matching Equus gauges and a close matching AEM gauge.
3-3/8” 160mph speedometer
3-3/8” 8kRPM tachometer
2” oil pressure
2” water temp
2” volt meter
2” fuel gauge
2-1/16 air/fuel wideband.
I wasn’t sure if I could squeeze all of them into the cluster but after doing some measurements, I think I can pull it off.
I plan on cutting out the original cluster face and replacing it with a piece of black plexiglass, cut to fit the gauges.
I’ll have to figure out how to ground the switches.
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If you have any input or ideas I’m all ears.
 
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That’s about how I did mine used a plastic board for backing then covered in a carbon fiber cloth.

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Looks like it'll be tight in there....hope you can get it all to fit well.
 
Well i haven’t got the car street ready yet but all work good with the car idling lol. I did have to replace the fuel gauge as it stopped working with in a couple of days of putting it in but it was with in the warranty.
 
I would mount 1 or 2 of those gauges under the dash. It wont look out of place. Be awfully jammed in there the way you have it laid out. I know for me last thing I would want is a lot of wiring crammed in there. As mentioned, wiper and headlight switches?
Good luck
 
It’s almost done. I still have to do a few small things but everything works for the most part.
I think the fuel gauge is reading way lower than it should, and I have to touch up some of the paint I scratched while installing it.
Overall I’m extremely happy with how it turned out.
I was going to use plexiglass as the backing but it was too hard to cut with my barbaric tools. So I ended up cutting a piece out of the plastic storage tub that used to be behind the seat in my Ram, cut it to shape, bought a $12 amazon hole saw kit for the holes, then JB welded it in.
I ended up relocating the light/wiper switch to just below the cluster.
For the blinker indicators, I added two small bulbs into the now useless PRND21 area. Also wired the back lighting bulb for the PRND21 as the high beam indicator.
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i think it looks good,my 70 dart has a different cluster,but when i get home i'm going to look at it & see if i can put something together similar to what you did.thanks for the idea friend
 
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