Glowshift Guages

[jdeng]

I bought a cheapo gauge from Glow Shift on ebay for less than $50.  Looks good, seems accurate (it corresponded to the mechanical gauge I was checking with, fwiw), and the instructions were good.

 

Downside is that the sending unit crapped out after about a year (and yes, it is remote-mounted off the engine).  Upside is that you can get on their website and buy a replacement sender for $12.

 

So I give them an A+ for service.  I'll probably go ahead and buy a trans temp gauge from them.  My experience with gauges in general is that most brands of pressure sending units tend to break occasionally, so I can't say that GlowShift is worse than other brands. 

 

And my experience with mechanical gauges is soured by my experience with cleaning the interior up from broken copper oil pressure line once. 

 

I do wish that I hadn't gone with the "tinted" gauge.  It's a little hard to read in the daytime.

[JJK98CTD]

I still run a glow shift 7 color fuel gauge. with a needle valve for a fuel snubber. It has been in my truck since I put on my original air dog 100. Only problem I ever had was one of the colors doesn't work.

[Killer223]

mine died last night.

i'ma get all new isso or autometer or something.,

 

http://youtu.be/yJT9iXluZdw

[dracozny]

I have autometers and the pyrometer likes to jam itself up especially on cold mornings. I have a glowshift FP gauge and it has worked flawlessly for the last 5 years. 

[Ilikeoldfords]

I have been running Isspro mechanical gauges and love them. Good quality and not to hard on the wallet, never have to worry about a sending unit going bad. Just run a needle valve as a snubber so I can close it quick in the case that I have a leak.

[mopartechnician]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam5ZBGLk7o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This was going down the highway mainting speed and not accelerating. My mechanicle gauge only moves when i floor it. I got another guy that has the 7 color doing the same thing

Edited February 21, 2014 by mopartechnician

[dracozny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam5ZBGLk7o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This was going down the highway mainting speed and not accelerating. My mechanicle gauge only moves when i floor it. I got another guy that has the 7 color doing the same thing

video set to private, so it won't load

[mopartechnician]

Hmmm dont know how its private

Edited February 22, 2014 by mopartechnician

[dracozny]

Hmmm dont know how its private

all I know is I can watch all youtube videos normally, click on yours I get a loading screen forever. click on the "watch on youtube" button and I get 

This video is private.

Sorry about that.

[Ilikeoldfords]

I get the same message. Kinda strange.

[mopartechnician]

http://youtu.be/qam5ZBGLk7o

I will try it one more time, didn't realize that I uploaded it to a new account and had to verify, maybe that's what was wrong

[shawnoverstreet411]

I bought the cheapest set they had back in August when I bought my truck due to budget. When the start going bad I'll replace them with mechanical gauges. I have not had any problems yet and am happy with the quality, for the price I paid.