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| | | | Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 239 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 239 | Added a tach to my '55 1st series. I installed the tach in the clock housing bought from a fellow Stovebolter. It is not stock but neither is my truck. I am running a 261 engine. tach picture 1 tach picture 2 | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 |
A very nice use for the clock housing.
| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,424 ODSS President | | ODSS President Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,424 | I have the same tach mounted on my column, you can pop off the cover and paint the sweep hand white if you want it to blend a little better. Actually, the reason I painted mine white was for greater visibility.
~ Cosmo
1949 Chevy Half Ton
Rocinante, like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
"...my good horse Rocinante, mine eternal and inseparable companion in all my journeys and courses." ...Don Quixote, Cervantes
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."...Yogi Berra
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." ...Eric Hoffer
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Yep, nice place to mount that little tach, I've got one of those SunPro tacks but had to
mount it on the steering column.
Sure wish someone would make some of those housings for a reasonable price. It's a
relatively simple part. If you had the means to make a sand casting and pour some
aluminum. A lot of hobby casters out there that could do it.
I'm moving out to the country this summer and have been wanting to do some alum and
zinc casting with a 5gallon propane furnace that I've had on the back burner for a decade.
I can't do anything like that where I’m at now. When you have the neighbor (s) from ^ell
living 25feet away from each side of you, you can’t do much of anything without being
threatened with a law suit. I think somewhere down the line I'm going to try and locate
one of those original ‘54 housings and make a pattern off of it.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Last edited by Denny Graham; 03/11/2012 1:40 PM.
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
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