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Since the day we ripped off the old tan vinyl coverings from the dashboard and entry wall, we have been welcomed into the bus by chewed-up metal and aging defrost system. Last week, we shared the new defrost system, and today we finally get to share how we covered it

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Why would we want to know the RPMs on an engine with an automatic transmission? Besides keeping tabs on the engine, a tachometer can be very useful when using the jake brake down steep inclines. From what we read, they never installed tachometers at the factory and instead limit the

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In Part 4 of our Dash Rehab series, we showed how we wired the gauges up in a wiring harness as well as how we wired each of the major sensors. Wiring them in this way made installing them very simple. We plugged in the two wiring harnesses we created

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In Part 3 of our Dash Rehab series, we showed our solution to one of our trickiest sensors: the oil pressure gauge. Thankfully, none of the other sensors gave us that much trouble. We bought our new gauges from Speedhut.com, and all the gauges came with very detailed instructions

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In Part 1 of our Dash Rehab series, we showed you how bad the dash panel looked. The gauges were no exception. A couple of the gauges didn’t work at all, the speedometer did a needle-bounce under 20mph, there wasn’t a tachometer at all, and they were all

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I began riding motorcycles when I was fifteen years old. And when I wasn't riding, I was reading about motorcycles.
There was one picture from Motorcyclist magazine that became etched in my mind. A Kawasaki ZX-7R motorcycle with a "chrome" frame. This is not the exact picture - I couldn't

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When we bought the bus, we knew that we would need to redo the dash and switch panels. The wood was cracking, was poorly cut, and was generally looking sad. In addition, some of the gauges didn’t work very well, and some didn’t work at all. The old

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