newdesertfox
Well-Known Member
I have a more of a beginner mechanic question, I have a phase 3 580k thats new to me, and by new I mean I bought it, worked it for 2 days and almost every cylinder on the machine blew out under load and other issues that caused it to be in the shop for 4 months as of now. The entire instrument cluster was dead, and I asked the tech to look at it to find out what might be shorting it out (I absolutely hate running machines with dead gauges and not knowing what its doing, call it a pet peeve lol, one thing I really enjoyed on the newer machines) Anyways he looked at it and said all the gauges are shot, and it looks like someone messed with them before trying to fix them. So some questions, A, I looked at OEM clusters and choked on the prices for 5 case gauges... are there any recommendations for non OEM clusters or gauges? I personally don't like the look of old case gauges so thought of just redoing the whole cluster and making it look nice but its not something Im familiar with. B, are there any clusters that are non OEM that are less then 1.4k? And C how much of a hassle is it to rewire or put in a new harness on the 580K's and Im guessing that just pulling the gauges open and installing new stepper motors isn't an option on older machines like that? Thanks for any help or input, always trying to learn and I've found people with more experience then me are much better then the manuals lol