yeah the old ones can be a bear if there's rotten wood - I think there's guys around that have patterns for some years - the cut capillary tubes have to be professionally replaced, but there are places that can do it, so the good gauges aren't a loss - you may want to update the engine sometime, and there's folks here that can advise on that I think - good luck w/ it and keep pluggin away on that deadline grin

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics