Mods can move it where they want. Just didn't think it was right to spend the money on the gauges and then have someone try to sell me a $200 mount kit from billet when I've got these things laying around!
Last month I ordered the gauges for Courtland’s truck. There was a thread on there from TPost/Tugmaster asking what would be the best gauges to use. I jumped in and asked about Dolphin and AutoMeter. Well, I know there is a significant price difference but AutoMeter is a name I’ve known and trusted. Either way, new gauges are a minimum of a few hundred bucks.
I received a PM at that time about the mounting and that I’d need an adapter. A HAMB Alliance Member pointed this out to me and that he’d sell me a set if I wanted one. I looked at the Dolphin ad in Street Rodder and saw they were $190! Dolphin gauges are only like $250 or so AND the adapter is billet. The whole point of the build on this truck is to go to BilletProof Detroit so that left me with one option: Figure it out our selves!
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Sunday I actually pulled the gauges out of the box and test fit them into the holes.
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Whoops. Basic math could have told me this wasn’t going to work.
