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A-pillar gauge pod?
Wittsend:
Sorry I don't know about the cable length being long enough. It would probably depend on the slack in the cable and if the connecting end at the heater box/valve are mounted high or low. I'd go and look but as we both know it is raining now.
Reeves1:
Someone on here yeas ago was making them. Try the search to find it ?
oldkayaker:
I mounted 3 2-1/16" gauges where the heater control was. The control cables were disconnected and then reconnected when the control panel was remounted to the right. The hole in the dash for the heater control panel right mounting screw hole became the left with a new new hole drilled in the dash for the right mounting screw. A rectangle hole for the control panel was also cut in the dash. The cables "stretched/bent" enough for it to work but the cables were tight. At the time, my 71 was only 3 years old so the plastic cable sheaths were still pliable (your results may be different). I made a patch panel to cover hole from the old control panel location and to mount the gauges, see attached photos. The speedometer cluster covered left edge and the heater control panel covered the right edge.
This link may be what Reeves1 was referring to:52mm 3 Pod Gauge Cluster, Column Mount (fordpinto.com)
Wittsend:
I found these images of the lower mounted heater control in the console (don't like the gauges so far over). Also saw this other image where the gauges were mounted where the radio goes and then a new radio mount was configured. I thought it came out decently.
davidpinto:
I MOUNTED MY OIL PRESSURE & TEMP GAUGE HERE. I CUT AN ALUMINUM KICK PLATE TO FIT AND CUT HOLES WITH A HOLE SAW.
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