'68 Monaco AMP gauge conversion

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Few years of thinking and searching volt gauge pictures which will the right one,finally the time hase come to get it done.
I live 1000 miles away of my car and I want to drive it instead of wrench it when i'm home two-three times a year.

So I chose the Sunpro volt gauge hoping it will be small enough to replace my AMP gauge gut.The difficulty was my amp gauge is sweeping left to right down way which is not a common thing,only seen this in Bosch and Sunpro gauges.
Fortunately the size is right even the studs are in the same distance,only thing I had to cut off the plastic spacer around studs to get the right height.
I made two copper bracket to connect the + and - terminal and JB welded the needle in the right position. Easy peasy.

Only one mistake I left the original wires to connect instead of add an ignition + wire.
I will fix it next time.

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Few years of thinking and searching volt gauge pictures which will the right one,finally the time hase come to get it done.
I live 1000 miles away of my car and I want to drive it instead of wrench it when i'm home two-three times a year.


Only one mistake I left the original wires to connect instead of add an ignition + wire.
I will fix it next time.
CLEVER! I'm looking for a decent LED digital volt gauge for that slot, but I like what you've done better! I have a spare instrument panel. I might see about this sort of surgery on my spare amp gauge. I read the voltage off the main power lead from the switched side of the fusebox, with a small fuse protecting my voltmeter at present. That's a fairly good point for reading voltage from the alternator, with suitable allowance for the ignition switch resistance....
 
Few years of thinking and searching volt gauge pictures which will the right one,finally the time hase come to get it done.
I live 1000 miles away of my car and I want to drive it instead of wrench it when i'm home two-three times a year.

So I chose the Sunpro volt gauge hoping it will be small enough to replace my AMP gauge gut.The difficulty was my amp gauge is sweeping left to right down way which is not a common thing,only seen this in Bosch and Sunpro gauges.
Fortunately the size is right even the studs are in the same distance,only thing I had to cut off the plastic spacer around studs to get the right height.
I made two copper bracket to connect the + and - terminal and JB welded the needle in the right position. Easy peasy.

Only one mistake I left the original wires to connect instead of add an ignition + wire.
I will fix it next time.

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Neat idea and solution!

How are you going to mark the graduations and numbers on the front?
 
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