Looking for Autometer Phantom (Lunar or Cobalts are too expensive) gauges. I think I want just a Lo-Tek 3-gauge A-pillar column right now with:

Water temp
Trans temp
fuel pressure

With water temp doubling as oil temp and maybe trans temp doubling as diff. temp (a la Tim Skelton's setup)

Don't want to spend *too* much $$$ and I know the install will even be a bigger hassle but with summer coming up (hardest season on the truck imo) I'd like to be able to monitor as much as I can. Time to bite the bullet I guess....

 

I've heard some good things about http://www.egauges.com/

 

i got mine from jegs.

 

The water temp and trans temp are the same gauge. Use one gauge with 2 sending units and a switch. Save yoursellf some money!!!

 

I'm using the water temp as an oil temp and the trans temp as a diff temp..... maybe i'll do oil/water/trans temp all in one.....

 

Do I want 2 1/16s or 2 5/8 gauges?

 

I got mine from Scummit Racing.

Get the 2 1/16th so they hit in the pod.

 

No, if you got the 2 5/8, you would have to hit the pod
2 1/16 fits the pod

 

Thanks for the correction scaley one

 

Summit has decent prices.

--Joe

 

Where do u install the sending unit for a water temperature gauge on a Lightning??

 

Several places. One is in the original place on the lower intake on the passengers side. Others have actually taken the heater hose and added the unit there. If you goto the Search button and type in GUAGES and select only Lightning Section, you will find some really good documentation on different guage installs by all of us over the last year.

 

Just to confirm:

trans temp and water temp and oil temp all use the same gauge? What about fuel pressure and oil pressure?

If so, I may get water temp/trans temp/oil temp in one gauge, fuel pressure in another, and then oil pressure?

all electronic or which ones should be mechanical?

 

They're essentially the same thing. I would use an electronic gauge... Otherwise, they have digital gauges out there, which display 2 readings at once, and are designed to do so.

The sending unit on the electric gauges just pick up the reading at the source, then send it by wire to the gauge. That's why you can use 1 gauge for multiple functions.

 

Sweet, getting my full-pillar (3-gauge) pod and a Phantom boost gauge (30 psi, mechanical/vacuum)....

Now if someone would buy my stock radio/changer and my hitch and my stock pulley, i would have this project done in a jiffy so i can move on to my full Roush or hotchkis suspension bits