Looking for gauge with rpm, oil temp and oil pressure in one unit to replace the clock in 1978 transporter. Anyone done something similar? I have not found the right gauge. Most of them are individual rpm, temp or pressure.
I have a marine gauge with oil temp, pressure, fuel and volts. It took some frigging to get it working as it’s US spec so senders need matching. I haven’t seen a multi gauge with a tacho though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Good research. One thing to note with the temp gauge - it tops out at more or less where our aircooled oil temp sits most of the time on a motorway. My multi gauge is the same - 250F (120c). You won’t want it to go higher than that. It’s an indicator anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Its a pity that PLX Devices did not continue developing a system around their Multi Function Displays. Their AFR meter has a dash display covering everything you want, but one thing at a time. You can set alarms on things so if e.g. oil temperature exceeds 125 C it switches over to showing oil pressure. Trouble is they only ever made senders for a few items , you daisychained sender boxes to each MFD.. I think they do temperatures and air fuel ratio senders. I based my setup on this as I have a PLX devices AFR sender (trashed the nice MFD display unit..shorted 12 volts to a 3.3 volt signal) so I made my own MFDs and added some more measurements using the PLX protocol. Under my dash I have two 1.3" OLED dot matrix displays. On these I can choose from various things: Battery 1/2 voltage Oil pressure CHT left/right MAP RPM AFR Usually leave it on AFR and a CHT reading But not when I took that picture. I think finding a graphics LCD panel and putting it in the clock position with a circular window and filling that with little pictures could be fun.
If I recall the old Mercedes W123 models had a 3 in 1 instrument in the dash. Oil temp & pressure and one other I think. Stirlingmoz
