The Ford Barn

GB SISSON · 04-18-2022, 10:14 PM

I am a fan of 12 v so I run my vehicles that way. I love my stock instrument panels and I have bought a good many extra gauges at swap meets etc. I have used the runtz things and a few others , cheap ones and expensive ones. I still have very unreliable gauges in both vehicles I have converted this way. The third, I made a rather amaturish inset panel with all vintage SW mechanical gauges from ebay and they tell me what I want to know. I am at the point with the six cyl jailbar tonner pickup where I need good gauges. I am inclined to wire them all up with one ford type resistor like in my '59 pickup I sold. I swayed away from the fold in the red tonner with a cummins diesel and later the ford tin on a toyota landcruiuser. With my H six truck I want it to be far closer to stock, so while I have searched this many times over the years, do I need to go full mechaincal again or is there something that makes these king seeley things work?

04-18-2022, 10:14 PM	#1
GB SISSON Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Orcas Island Washington Posts: 5,073	Running ford king seeley gauges on 12 v I am a fan of 12 v so I run my vehicles that way. I love my stock instrument panels and I have bought a good many extra gauges at swap meets etc. I have used the runtz things and a few others , cheap ones and expensive ones. I still have very unreliable gauges in both vehicles I have converted this way. The third, I made a rather amaturish inset panel with all vintage SW mechanical gauges from ebay and they tell me what I want to know. I am at the point with the six cyl jailbar tonner pickup where I need good gauges. I am inclined to wire them all up with one ford type resistor like in my '59 pickup I sold. I swayed away from the fold in the red tonner with a cummins diesel and later the ford tin on a toyota landcruiuser. With my H six truck I want it to be far closer to stock, so while I have searched this many times over the years, do I need to go full mechaincal again or is there something that makes these king seeley things work? __________________ Owner/Operator of 'Jailbar Ranch' on the side of Mt. Pickett. Current stable consists of 1946 1/2 ton pickup turned woodie wagon with FH V8, 1946 Tonner Pickup with 226 H six, 1979 Toyota landcruiser wagon, now wearing 1947 Ford Jailbar sheet metal. 'Rusty ol' floorboards, hot on their feet' (Alan Jackson)