I personally have owned two sets of these gauges and They are terrible. They were awesome for around 4 to 6 months and slowly led’s would start going out till you will lose whole panel. There is no voltage regulation and the components are cheap. Save your self money and time and just buy Dakota digital. Two years strong and absolutely love my Dakota digital set.
That is a really cool video. I was unsure how to make the conversion, but now I will cause it seems so simple. Thanks a lot to have taken the time to do this.
@@LonniesGarage thank you ! Really enjoy your videos it's awesome that you take the time to make the videos and upload them. I have Dakota digital gauges swapping from a 350 to the LS turned into a frame off restoration in like four or five years in right now trying to get it finished up
I have a question, it's a Swap like yours, it put some clusters the same as yours And it doesn't mark rpm with the computer pin How could I make it work?
@@LonniesGarage sorry to hear that..I purchased the analog gauges for my 81 c10..My friend is installing them as we text...wish i would of text you earlier for your feedback.
Yes as darkside0914 said I do have a video showing how i put the battery on the drivers side. I dont have my air hooked up yet but i do still have the compressor on the motor and the dryer on the fire wall. I also still have the plugs needed to make it all work. I will be hooking it all up sometime in the near future
thanks ill rewatch that vid. i have a 82 c10 ls swaped as well i just had to run the battery to the frame but if i can put it on the driverside it would be much more convenient. by the way thanks for all the info. you put up
I am currently in the process of doing this cluster swap in my 86 gmc k1500. I'm wondering if the wiring in my truck will be the same as it was in yours? @ 10:40 in the video you start going over what each wire in the factory harness is for. Think this will be the same for me? Thanks for the awesome video. My truck isn't LS swapped, I'm putting together a 400 SBC for it right now and I want to get these gauges installed prior to dropping the motor in.
PuppetKicker I understand it's an LS swap I saw in your previous videos that your fuse blocks where different I was trying to see why because I bought the one you had before.
Thx, was looking for an alternative to the much more expensive Dakota Digital setup. Been driving for around 10k miles with nothing but a voltmeter and an inaccurate fuel gauge. Just worried about the accuracy of the readouts on this. When you blipped the throttle it looked like it went to over 6k but sounded like it was only 4k to 5k and the voltage seems a bit high at 14.6
Great Video!! But Please avoid using Teflon tape. The units are tapered to to seal and Teflon may cause loss of ground. The single wire temp sensor from Intellitronix is an S8013
Hello Mr. Lonnie, hope you don't mind me reaching out, I am having a little difficulty wiring my Intellitronix. I don't know if your Intellitronix came with 4 dimmers, 3 ground, but mine did and it's confusing me. I would greatly appreciate any help. Please and thank you
This video saved my day 👍 but i have a question i would really appreciate it if you answer back so on the ls engine have a coolant temp on driver side so my question is do i leave that alone or can connect it from there also?
You can swap out that stock coolant sensor for a 1998 Camaro temp sensor. It has 3 wires that come from it. You will need to get the plug to match it. You will cut the stock plug off your harness and wire the new Camaro plug to it. The 3rd wire coming from it will go to the cluster for your temperature reading
Could you please tell me how you hooked up the full gage? My does not function properly, and I noticed that some other UA-cam videos have the same issues, even thought they don't notice it. The fuel gage jumps up to 99. Thank you for your time
Hey Lonnie love the truck ? How did you get your fuel to work on those gauges I have the same on my 86 with two tanks I’m running just my driver side tank and can’t get the garage to register right any help thanks.
Hey Lonnie great job! I installed the same dash in my 84 under the hei distributor. My tach jumps all over the place. Do you think the tach filter is required thanks in advance!
WHAT DO I DO WITH THE SOLO GROUND THEY SENT IN THE KIT ?? I HAVE THREE GRNDS FROM THE BACK DASH AND THREE IN MY DASH ORIGINAL TRUCK HARNESS SO THEMS GO TO THEMS RIGHT? BUT WARE DO I CONECT THE EXTRA SOLO ONE IT SAYS FROM DASH TO BLOCK BUT WARE ON THE NEW Dash ?? also can i just connect all the key ignition pink wire to the 3 on my original harness ?can i twist the 3 original pink and twist the new dash pink ends and just connect the now 2 ends to a single buttconector same withe the 3 grounds can i just twist them from the harness and from the new dash and connect the now two ends to a single butt connector ? hey i really really appreciate any real answers from people that know i don't wanna smoke my dash and burn any thing please help
Does the fuel gauge gives u problems? becase i want to buy a intellitronix create a dash but i wanna know about the fuel gauges because is always changing while driving
@@LonniesGarage already completed the swap engine running and tuned .. installed the digital dash and im stomped at the tach and speedometer wires location on the pcm...
I installed the same dash and i'm having a issue when i cut my lights on the drivers side signal and brake lights are stuck on and are not blinking but when i cut the lights off it works just fine and i have no idea what it could be
I am installing this same cluster. Could your wire label by numbers be the same as mine? 1976 GMC K2500 I am having a difficult time finding the fuel wire to hook into. I am thinking since yours had a jumper then mine has to be the only one with a jumper as well. I also couldn't find the high beam wire. and how do i find you on facebook?
wow is your oil pressure gauge actually reading correctly? They sent me two different sending units and both just read 99. I finally just used a gm sending unit and it works but reads about 20 psi high.
I got the green LED, pretty excited to do the install. Did you contact Intellitronix directly to get the plug? I ordered my kit from Jegs, which came with no plugs
looks great , I don't know if my son wants to put something like that in my old truck , but it has an old 350 CID 010 block , I can't remember if you said they had a kit to be able to use that on an older engine or not , but I added this video to my diy play list . God Bless ..
hello lonnie such a big fan of yours i was wondering can you send me a list of evevrything you had to buy for this ls swap except for the engine i bought one from ebay full pull out
No, he said it was idling too high. This person means the guage is reading too high overall. I agree, he revs it up and it almost goes to 8 grand?? Not on a stock LS.
Sometimes when you get an aftermarket tachometer, you have to select the number of cylinders of the engine. That is because some of them are triggered by the ignition coil to distributor wire. EDIT: I don't know how it works for engines with distributorless engines.
You have the only video on UA-cam that has a detailed install.
Thank you, you saved me so much time
Thank you so much for going through every wire on the stock harness/plug. Saved me so much time, really appreciate it
I personally have owned two sets of these gauges and They are terrible. They were awesome for around 4 to 6 months and slowly led’s would start going out till you will lose whole panel. There is no voltage regulation and the components are cheap. Save your self money and time and just buy Dakota digital. Two years strong and absolutely love my Dakota digital set.
That is a really cool video. I was unsure how to make the conversion, but now I will cause it seems so simple. Thanks a lot to have taken the time to do this.
Save your money. These clusters are junk.
@@LonniesGarage😂😂
Thank you sir, I got one for my 85 Sierra. It came today. I have a old school 350 engine
I appreciate your video sooooo much man! Thank you! This will be my first attempt at anything with wires.
Colored finger nail polish works perfect on the threads of temperature sensors trick my dad showed me!
Very good video, I dig how organized and we'll labeled everything is
This helped me out tremendously ! Thank you
very nice.. good step by step information also
Great video Lonnie👍🇺🇸
Thank you
Beautiful build brother, keep it up
Thanks
Hey lonnie where did u run your tach wire too on your ls harness ?
just beautiful brother i wish i had the time n money to do my 84 c10 this way......great job keep it up God Bless
Thank you! I’m doing this install soon on a 85 k1500
Thankyou. I’m working on my 1988 suburban and i need to find out each numbered color. It’s the same connection
Where does the brake warning light wires in # 17 go?
Thanks for excellent vids. and explaining the entire process, good luck and God bless.
Excellent videos Thank you SIR!
i like the new gauges, except the gas gauge, wonder if the install would be any harder on my stock 90 4x4
It shouldnt be
Awesome video...Man.. That cluster looks super good... Keep up the great work!!!!!
The part I'm confused about is does the ECM need those signals ?
The ecm needs the water temp signal. It doesn't need the oil.
@@LonniesGarage thank you !
Really enjoy your videos it's awesome that you take the time to make the videos and upload them. I have Dakota digital gauges swapping from a 350 to the LS turned into a frame off restoration in like four or five years in right now trying to get it finished up
Great video! I bought the kit when i had a 305, what was the part number for the temp sensor?
Same gauges i can get the Speedometer gauge to work any ideas on what im doing wrong
I'm trying to wire up my temp tack and speedometer what color is the wires.
I have a 1988 I can’t really find a nice one like this that’s like it. What’s the difference between the 87-88 ones? Thanks !
Go get a Dakota Digital.
@@LonniesGarage much appreciated. Thanks for responding!
I have a question, it's a Swap like yours, it put some clusters the same as yours And it doesn't mark rpm with the computer pin How could I make it work?
Hello, Mr Lonnie..How are you Gauges keeping up? Are you having any problems with them?
Junk. They ain’t working.
@@LonniesGarage sorry to hear that..I purchased the analog gauges for my 81 c10..My friend is installing them as we text...wish i would of text you earlier for your feedback.
2 quick question how did you mount the battery on the driver side and do you have a/c is so how did you go about it if you dnt mind sharing ?
he has a vid of it, look up his 84 c10 project ls swap part 9
Thank you.
Yes as darkside0914 said I do have a video showing how i put the battery on the drivers side. I dont have my air hooked up yet but i do still have the compressor on the motor and the dryer on the fire wall. I also still have the plugs needed to make it all work. I will be hooking it all up sometime in the near future
thanks ill rewatch that vid. i have a 82 c10 ls swaped as well i just had to run the battery to the frame but if i can put it on the driverside it would be much more convenient. by the way thanks for all the info. you put up
I got the white set up on my LS swap my oil pressure isn't working which wire did u tie in cluster plug oh and mine is 86
For the 3 wires you connected for the 12v power source, what color of wires were they? We’re they all pink with black stripes?
Meaning your 2 pink and 1 red wires from the digital dash will plug into the 3 pink with black stripe wires from the truck?
And for your rpm did you run it to your distributor cap?
I am currently in the process of doing this cluster swap in my 86 gmc k1500. I'm wondering if the wiring in my truck will be the same as it was in yours? @ 10:40 in the video you start going over what each wire in the factory harness is for. Think this will be the same for me? Thanks for the awesome video. My truck isn't LS swapped, I'm putting together a 400 SBC for it right now and I want to get these gauges installed prior to dropping the motor in.
andy petras it should be the same but just to be safe I would Google the harness pigtail wiring diagram for your year and model.
I have a question why did you change your fuse blocks in the main harness?
Because this is an LS swapped truck. The motor has to have its own fuse box with the harness
PuppetKicker I understand it's an LS swap I saw in your previous videos that your fuse blocks where different I was trying to see why because I bought the one you had before.
Jtinnon oh OK. Yeah I'm sorry. The other style is more prone to being open. This is more suitable for me.
Thx, was looking for an alternative to the much more expensive Dakota Digital setup. Been driving for around 10k miles with nothing but a voltmeter and an inaccurate fuel gauge. Just worried about the accuracy of the readouts on this. When you blipped the throttle it looked like it went to over 6k but sounded like it was only 4k to 5k and the voltage seems a bit high at 14.6
They aren't very reliable
Great Video!! But Please avoid using Teflon tape. The units are tapered to to seal and Teflon may cause loss of ground. The single wire temp sensor from Intellitronix is an S8013
I need your help with Speedo meter and rpm please mine has an ls swap also
For the gauge cluster did you run all your positives and grounds like you did from the wiring harness of the truck?
Joe Martinez yes. Tie all the hot wires to one main wire. Then did the same for the grounds and the same for the dimer
Thank you! Im taking this challenge on this weekend lol.
Joe Martinez I'll have another video up soon.
Cómo puedo calibrar los marcadores
Hello Mr. Lonnie, hope you don't mind me reaching out, I am having a little difficulty wiring my Intellitronix. I don't know if your Intellitronix came with 4 dimmers, 3 ground, but mine did and it's confusing me. I would greatly appreciate any help. Please and thank you
Bud it’s been a while since I did mine. But I’ll tell u now they are junk. I’ve went through 3 or 4 sets and they all have failed.
@LonniesGarage Wow, are you serious? These things are not cheap. How could they not be that good? Wow, I didn't expect this....thank you Lonnie.
@@Oli-zn3pf they are cheap compared to Dakota digital. You couldn’t have paid more that 400 for the set
@@Chasemanuti O wow, wish I would have reached out, along time ago before I bought the device.
Hey bud I have 3 fuel wires 2 on 18 and 1 on 7 of original Harness. Which ones do I connect? And don’t I just use one power wire instead of all 3 ?
It's the right wire from the harness, do you have to specify to them that you done an ls swap so they will set it up for it.
yes u have to let them know your doing an ls swap but your wasting your time and money on them
Great video 👍🏾 I have the same brand digital dash that I will be installing in my 1994 g20 van.
How did you connected your spedometer?
Hello I have a few questions on the connector should I go with 12 pin or 20 pin ?
12
@LonniesGarage Thank you
When installing it with the ls swap do you have to set the fuel regulator or not
@@RawTonyChevybuild nope
This video saved my day 👍 but i have a question i would really appreciate it if you answer back so on the ls engine have a coolant temp on driver side so my question is do i leave that alone or can connect it from there also?
You can swap out that stock coolant sensor for a 1998 Camaro temp sensor. It has 3 wires that come from it. You will need to get the plug to match it. You will cut the stock plug off your harness and wire the new Camaro plug to it. The 3rd wire coming from it will go to the cluster for your temperature reading
Did you by any chance have to change the flexible circuit board behind the tach and speedo?
Nope
Lonnies garage where do the green cable from the digital dash goes to the original wire hardness
Tino Gaspar I showed a diagram. Pause it on that spot. Hope it helps bud.
Could you please tell me how you hooked up the full gage? My does not function properly, and I noticed that some other UA-cam videos have the same issues, even thought they don't notice it. The fuel gage jumps up to 99. Thank you for your time
Nathan Gordon I just ran the gauge wire from the bulkhead to the cluster. It will be the pink wire. I have a video showing the bulkhead wiring too
Hey Lonnie do you have a good diagram for a 87 r10 cluster plug ?
Check out the files section on the Facebook group ls swapped square body Chevy
Sorry to bug you. The diagram shows the truck side #18 and 7 as both fuel gauge . Do I pin both to #10 yellow?
What did you hook the dimmer wire to?
bump where did you hook the dimmer up to? The illumination wire?
Hey Lonnie love the truck ? How did you get your fuel to work on those gauges I have the same on my 86 with two tanks I’m running just my driver side tank and can’t get the garage to register right any help thanks.
I just hooked the pink wire up from the sending unint to the gauge.
@@LonniesGarage are you running dual tanks also btw my wife Facebook you on same question I would like to phone you if possible I really appreciate it
Every gauge is functioning properly but my fuel gauge. It will read 99 and will then read 00. My fuel tank is full. I have ls swap in my c10.
I ordered the same kit. Did you run your red and black wires for the speedometer to your dash wires or straight to the battery? Thanks
Daniel Smith this kit is junk. I sent it all back
Ok I may be being dumb but what are all of the adapters that I would need to change it from a gear speedometer to a electronic speedometer
Hey Lonnie great job! I installed the same dash in my 84 under the hei distributor. My tach jumps all over the place. Do you think the tach filter is required thanks in advance!
Yes
@@LonniesGarage my dash does the same what kind of filter you recommend Thankyou
WHAT DO I DO WITH THE SOLO GROUND THEY SENT IN THE KIT ?? I HAVE THREE GRNDS FROM THE BACK DASH AND THREE IN MY DASH ORIGINAL TRUCK HARNESS SO THEMS GO TO THEMS RIGHT? BUT WARE DO I CONECT THE EXTRA SOLO ONE IT SAYS FROM DASH TO BLOCK BUT WARE ON THE NEW Dash ?? also can i just connect all the key ignition pink wire to the 3 on my original harness ?can i twist the 3 original pink and twist the new dash pink ends and just connect the now 2 ends to a single buttconector same withe the 3 grounds can i just twist them from the harness and from the new dash and connect the now two ends to a single butt connector ? hey i really really appreciate any real answers from people that know i don't wanna smoke my dash and burn any thing please help
What was your constant 12+ source?
Where do you pick up the tach I got a 8.1
The tac comes built in to the cluster
Would your bulkhead connector be the same as my 87 k5 jimmy?
I have a 1984 c20 i swapped it so it now has a 1995 suburban 2500 so asking would it be the right onw
I want to do a swap on my 85 c19 I did run a full wire harness I got off "Painless" I'm also looking into a digital dash
Go with Dakota digital
so it dont show the mileage? and what the tank is on? curious bc i got dual tanks in my k10 and i bought this dash. this is awesome
Yes it shows it. The milage will start at 0
I cant seem to get my rpm to work. It just flashes 8800,6000,8cylinder over an over. Everything else seems to be working
how did you change it to work with the 4 cylinder signal comming out of the LS ecu
When you order them you tell them it is for an LS swap and they do it for you for free
I want to put this in my 1988 gmc 4×4 jimmy how hard is it..
@@tapout2400able save your money. They are junk.
i got the sane thing installed in an 84 k10 just now but gas is reaching 99. i had a pink wire hooked... any possible way to fix it
That’s really nice I gotta get one
Does the fuel gauge gives u problems? becase i want to buy a intellitronix create a dash but i wanna know about the fuel gauges because is always changing while driving
Gabriel Robles mine bounced a lot but when driving down a straight road it lined out
good job.looks awesome.. nice truck by the way..
Ty
I like that nice can you get different color on dash
Yes
Do you have the wiring diagram for the wires going into the harness?
Which harness?
How can I connect an rpm to a 5.3 swap motor? To a Blazer 86 .
This is so cool! Is this also dimmable?
Hey where did you get your cluster pigtail pinout information from? Everything I find looks very different then yours
Thanks!
travis malcolm I have a picture of it in my Facebook page
nice job, do you got a link to the LED shop lights you used in your garage?
Josh Kilen I got them from Lowes
Lonnie's Garage ok
Am I missing the tach and speedometer wiring underneath the hood... the 2 i really need
Are u doing an LS swap
@@LonniesGarage already completed the swap engine running and tuned .. installed the digital dash and im stomped at the tach and speedometer wires location on the pcm...
I installed the same dash and i'm having a issue when i cut my lights on the drivers side signal and brake lights are stuck on and are not blinking but when i cut the lights off it works just fine and i have no idea what it could be
I am installing this same cluster. Could your wire label by numbers be the same as mine? 1976 GMC K2500
I am having a difficult time finding the fuel wire to hook into. I am thinking since yours had a jumper then mine has to be the only one with a jumper as well. I also couldn't find the high beam wire. and how do i find you on facebook?
Justin Smith my name on Facebook is Lonnie PuppetKicker Rice. The bottom pink wire in the bulkhead is for the fuel gauge
Great video.
wow is your oil pressure gauge actually reading correctly? They sent me two different sending units and both just read 99. I finally just used a gm sending unit and it works but reads about 20 psi high.
What year is your pcm? I may be able correct your speedo in the pcm really cheap depending on what year it is. ;)
Bad Luck Garage yea oil is reading that. My pcm is from a 02 burban
nice work, does it have a dimmer
The purple wire and when you pull the lights it’ll dim just a little bit but not much
I got the green LED, pretty excited to do the install. Did you contact Intellitronix directly to get the plug? I ordered my kit from Jegs, which came with no plugs
Wylde1966 no I got it from ebay
What happened to the check engine and other dummy lights?
They will still come on if something is wrong.
Evee figure out the idle to get it on point?
looks great , I don't know if my son wants to put something like that in my old truck , but it has an old 350 CID 010 block , I can't remember if you said they had a kit to be able to use that on an older engine or not , but I added this video to my diy play list . God Bless ..
yes it will work in your truck
Im going with u need an LS to use these gauges?
Nope they can be used on an older motor also
hello lonnie such a big fan of yours i was wondering can you send me a list of evevrything you had to buy for this ls swap except for the engine i bought one from ebay full pull out
Do you have part 1
Wonder if will fit my 1984 ? Dually
Yup
that looks cool, I am almost positive the tach is reading too high, god bless
He says that🤣😂
No, he said it was idling too high. This person means the guage is reading too high overall. I agree, he revs it up and it almost goes to 8 grand?? Not on a stock LS.
Does the rpm gage have a shift light?
No
Tach is def way off lol. This is a cool setup but that fuel saying a number instead of a normal E to F would drive me nuts lol
Sometimes when you get an aftermarket tachometer, you have to select the number of cylinders of the engine. That is because some of them are triggered by the ignition coil to distributor wire.
EDIT: I don't know how it works for engines with distributorless engines.
I was thinking the same thing I seen it go to 8,800 rpm no way it's going that high
how to get that blue speed gauge 😬
Will this work with stock 6.2 diesel engine
I don't see why not
What was the problem with the high beams
alexw288 not sure. I took it for a test drive and tried them and they worked right away
PuppetKicker how did you get your speedo to werk with your gauge ( how is it wired)
Santiago Ramirez when you make or get your ls harness made it has a wire for the speed
what color is your fuel wire in your truck
Fuel gauge wire will be pink
@@LonniesGarage ok so i got to a pink one attached but it reads 99 still. there a way to adjust that?
Raymond Schafer there’s settings on the board
where did you get the kit from and what was the cost looks great
Rob bigemon I got the Digital Gauge Cluster from ebay. The plug I got I think from ebay as well.
Printed hanks
Thanks
what do you use to take the pins out
Danny Austin metal pick.
Lonnie you said you bought on eBay what seller did you use. Great video.
How did u wire up the tach
Tac comes from the ls harness and goes to the gauge
Alright thanks man