Ed Hughes

I'd not want to drive without oil temp info, it is there for a reason.

Murphy's law comes to mind....

ron mcatee

It has always been recommended that if you change the temp guage to the numbered one that you should put in a matched sensor. They could be many degrees apart.

Carrera3.2LG50

Well, the gauges are out of the car. I'll be sending them to NHS right after I pack 'em up.

I may not end up doing too much driving while they are out, but I'll definitely watch my speed and I won't push the car hard so I should not have any temp issues. (I'll keep an eye on the oil level.)

If I have NHS do the temp conversion, he also sends the correct sending unit back with the gauge. (Thanks for those links, John, maybe I'll just get the new gauge fronts from Vintage.)

theiceman

while your there send them your tach they can install a voltmeter in it and it looks awesome .. and it is only money ... yours

Bruce Kaiser

if one could live without the information that the gauges give...speed, tach, temp, etc could we drive the car with all of the gauges removed?

Ed Hughes

Sure, but it would be dumb. How would you know you were overheating or your oil pressure was failing, until the motor gets to catastrophic failure?

Bruce Kaiser

yes would be dumb but I need to do a little work while the gauges are out so only running for a short period of time in the garage

ron mcatee

I had a 76 912E that wouldn't start if the tachometer was removed. I'm not sure what yours will do, but those instruments were put there for specific reasons. Good luck.

ricster

Actually I had them do all my gauges and had them back in 72 hours.

theiceman

What Ron said is actually true in some of the early cars .. the tach would provide the pulse to the engine management and kill it should overrev occur .. i imagine that removing the tach could remove that signal causing a no start.

However that aside you can definitly run without guages .. But as Ed refers to.. do you want to do that ? .. I am sure that guy was steering the titanic blidfolded.. the ship would go fine as it doesnt really need it to go ... until ...