Hello Frank;
Long time, no hear. We were sitting around drinking cheap (good!) red wine wondering how many gauges we all needed for our coaches and stuff. Some of us were mimimalists and others were, er... maximalmists. (I guess)
On my '74 Crown, (VIN 37317) I'd like to add an air application gauge soosss predicted brake fade and stuff could be predicted before it happened coming down those Western grades way toos fast with the Jake. Since the plan right now is for...
...employing two (2) fuel tanks I am holding out for two separate gas gauges soosss I do not get mixed up and have two empty fuel tanks instead of only one empty fuel tank. Better that way I quess. Then come the expected and...
...required "power gauges" which would let one (me?) at a glance tell what your (my?) mighty Cummins BC2 mill is doing which include the pyro gauge, inlet restriction gauge, boost, fuel pressure, exhaust back pressure, oil press, water and oil temp and fuel flow gauges.
As far as the tack and speedo, right now the plan is that I have no plan and just plan on using the existing VDO 80mph speedo and 3000 rpm tack which came with the coach since they are now in the dash and seem to work OK.
Then we have the rest of the "chassis gauges" which include mostly temps and stuff like trans and driver temps, tire temps, highway temps, air temp, humunity, barametric (sp) air pressure, etc.., stuff like that which is needed stuff.
Then come the "coach side" liquid level gauges which are the water tank and holding tank gauges. The gen set is planned right now to run off the back gas (fuel) tank, soosss we only need the gen set engine gauges like oil pressure, water...
...temp, oil temp, and stuff like that. Then come the "coach side" electrical gauges such as the battery voltage, watts used and watts available, present voltage and amperage useage, etc., etc.. Hummm. actually, I am going to use whatever....
....is already in the coach and probably not add much of anything. No $money$. I had two (two) buckets of gauges and senders purchased from the truck wrecking yard, but like a fool, I traded them off for some other stuff. Are we having fun yet? CROWNS FOREVER!!!
