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I have an 89.....really don't care much for the gauges. Haven't seen very many custom gauge layouts for this particular dash. Has anyone changed out their gauges for analog sweep like the later years? If so tell me what you did and where you got them.

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hey Texas Red

 

my "old truck" is an '89 (that's what my kids call it... daddy's OLD truck.  i had to get a 'new' truck when kid #2 came along since my '89 is a 2-seater)

 

anyways - have you checked dakota digital?  i installed this dash into my truck a number of years ago....  digital dash

 

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they now offer a couple more options....

 

http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=1086/category_id=421/mode=prod/prd1086.htm

^^this one they must have introduced in the last couple years - i really like it!

 

http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=911/category_id=421/mode=prod/prd911.htm

^^this second one they introduced a few years ago becuz i was going to replace my digital dash with this.... but then i bought my 2014 silverado and have basically parked my '89 since then

 

 

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OUCH....$1250....way too rich for my blood although I have to say it looks good, I'd rather just have the later model analogs without the fancy computer readout.

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I like the $800 option better but still a lot of cash when I can pick up the 1993-1994 dash gauges for around $100

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i agree... they definitely are not cheap - but they do look nice.

 

have you tried doing a google search for how to swap over to the needle gauges?  there are other truck forums that are more geared to older trucks which might be of more help.  i find this forum gets most of it's traffic with the topics for newer trucks

 

i found this topic...  https://www.gmt400.com/threads/89-to-91-instrument-cluster-swap.23804/

 

i used to be on a forum called fullsizechevy.com - but norton now blocks access to the page - not sure why

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Thanks for the link! I am on that forum now and have saved the page. Definitely want to change the cluster somehow. Yeah I noticed not a lot of info here on these OBS trucks. Glad you posted that forum, looks like that's a good place to be for the 400s!

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