10/31/07

Oooooooo! It’s Halloween! Scary! Ok, enough of that. I'm not sure how I can blame this on John but I'm going to try. I mentioned yesterday buying tires for Marty and shopping for gauges, remember? Well, I went back to Summit this morning (this is the part where I'm trying to blame John) and bought the 3 3/8” speedometer and tachometer. I know he mentioned having a stock gauge cluster with a factory tachometer but I have never been able to get a factory tachometer to work. The factory didn’t use a regular signal wire hooked to the negative side of the coil. They used some sort of inductive loop, continuum transfunctioner with an oscillation overthruster and flux capacitor. I think there are dilithium crystals in there as well. I mean come on, with that many different movie references how can anyone be expected to make it work? So, where was I? Right, I see. So I went ahead and bought the tachometer and speedometer for Marty. I'll figure out something to put in the third hole in the dash I guess. Like I said, I suppose I could leave the stock gauges in there. Let me think, what were the gauges in the third hole? I know the fuel level gauge is there. I think there is a water temp gauge; that makes sense. Is there a third gauge? I need to have a look at a dash picture. I wonder if I have one. I don’t remember one. Let’s go check, shall we? Well, I have a good picture of the Fauxbra’s dash as well as the Seven’s but neither of those helps me much. I guess I'll go to the 1200.com site and see if I can find one. Hang on. Ok, that was actually fruitful. I found a picture and was able to make out all the information I “needed.” The third hole in a 1200 dash has the afore mentioned gauges plus idiot lights for oil pressure, charging system, high beams, and the braking system. So there. Well, I have fallen asleep twice looking at this screen trying to think of more to say. I think I'm going to yield and call it a short rant. Toodles.