new guy here. Curious about different gauge clusters

[kenh]

Just bought a 1990 short box. It's an Arizona truck and I'm the third owner.


It has what I consider "ugly" gauges. I kind of would like to stay with a factory style gauge. What are my options? Currently my temp gauge does not work. If I ground the sensor wire,the gauge only moves a tiny bit. And the oil pressure gauge bounces around a lot. A quick search shows gauges are in the $60 to $70 each range.

Thanks in advance!

Ken

EDIT: Maybe this should be in the interior section?

 

[DerekTheGreat]

Ugly indeed. I've swapped every one of our pre 1990.5 trucks to the unicorn 1990.5 cluster, which was essentially the same display as the 1991 through 1994 trucks- needles with a tach (optional). Its almost a direct swap, you need to add a signal wire for the tach and move a few wires in the harness around. Those clusters are becoming quite rare though. Another option I think is possible is a cluster from a GM Kodiak truck. I haven't verified it with hands on experience yet but those had needles and were also available with a tach. Maybe someone else on here has some experience with those..