Gauges: Tach, temp, and others. Recommendations?

[Skinny]

I am going to swap a DB4 into my Cuck Vee that way when the PMD develops PMS it sends a TXT via BT

BTW, just registered my M1031 in New Hampshire yesterday. Whoever took CUCV for a vanity plate...I'm watching you!!!!! I had to go with CUCKV instead

 

[llong66]

I originally wanted to do a full gauge set up using either military gauges (M998 style) or aircraft. Of course we all know how accurate military gauges are

This is the first I have heard of the military gauges not being accurate, is this a normal problem? I had thought of going the rout till I found speed hut, can you give me a lil more info on the M998 units please?

Thanks,
Greg

 

[tim292stro]

Electrical military gauges, many New-Old-Stock (NOS), are matched to sender that are not available any more - others come with the sender, but the sender is no longer calibrated. Then the electrical gremlins sit down for a party - bad grounds, mis-sized wires, incorrect power, bad used wires - all of these add up to make a NOS electrical military gauge unreliable, or an "idiot gauge" at best.

As my Air Force buddy says frequently, "Just because it's Military, doesn't mean it's good..." Remember parts were often made by the lowest bidder on these trucks, even when there was a good reason for the price to be higher. My advice: find a Stewart Warner, ISSPro gauge or other "currently in production" and "modern" unit and its matched sender that looks like the military gauge you are replacing or adding.

This is the most recent anecdote I could find using the site search: www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?108657-HMMWV-Overheat-Q-s-and-pictures

 

[cpf240]

We are also taking about cars and trucks here, not space shuttles or super colliders... there is no great need, in general, for great precision or accuracy in the gauges the common users is going to interact with.

While I would love to have 100% accurate gauges, I don't have that kind of money, and really, as long as I know to pull over when the needle starts climbing into the danger zone, I'm good.