TIP: Regarding Under Hood Guages.

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64Comet404

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Get gauges with metal casings and glass lenses. Pay the extra dollars. Plastic cases and lenses can be easily damaged from Carb Cleaner, chemicals, and Heat. Especially the Lenses. A little bit of stray carb cleaner on a plastic lens, and the lens gets wrecked, cloudy, pitted, etc... Yesterday that's what happened to me, just moments after installing an inexpensive vacuum gauge under the hood of my '64 Comet. Some carb cleaner got on the lens and turned it white... I made it worse by attempting to wipe it off.

Bonus Tip: also, get them big or visually sharp enough so that you can see them clearly from short distances.
 
"..."You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."..."
& so U have, brother. Thank you!

BTW: how easy would it B 2 put that same gage or fuel pressure (etc) in the cab?
 
chad":37ag0zaa said:
BTW: how easy would it B 2 put that same gage or fuel pressure (etc) in the cab?
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You don't want to have a mechanical fuel pressure gauge in the cab for safety reasons.
 
Ahhh! gas leak, eh?

"...mechanical fuel pressure gauge..."
is there any other kind (i.e. safer)?

U could have a vac gauge on the dash tho?
 
interesting.
I think I have to go to Summit or some other 'dealer' to ask Qs re: the AutoMeter product. The "tech pointer" on their product (you've linked us to) lists the low pressure model(s) as having an isolator. We probably need a low (0 - 15 #) model for the majority of 'our' vehicles. When going to all the low pressure ones in the catelogue it does not show if the models have this isolator that's needed to safely mount in the driver's compartment.
I need to do more research -
Thanks for getting me started!
 
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