Well, I managed to accomplish a few minor things these past few days. One was uninstalling the speedo and shipping it off to North Hollywood Speedometer for a recalibration, the second was installing the new Ubercable 2/0 ground cable to the battery. The old cable was about half the diameter. The biggest challenge was getting the big cable to bend the way I needed it to to bolt it to the body ground and the battery terminal. One comment: they should make these about 2" longer for the E21's. I had to bend the body ground to get the thing to install right and the battery will NEVER move now.
The third item was the swapping of the face on the fuel gauge to show the liters vs. the overly-simple readout US cars have. Granted, the readout is still pretty relative. The needle always went beyond the max and below the "reserve" markings on the gauge, so how accurate is it really. I just like having more than "F" 1/2 and "R" on my gauges. That's just one step above the damn idiot lights! Blink! It's broke! Check Engine! The biggest challenge was practicing taking off the indicator needle so it wasn't broken in the effort. I had the old cluster to work on and good thing --- I managed to snap one needle off the temp gauge and mangled the tach needle as well.
Can't wait to hear back from North Hollywood Speedo on the recalibration work. I don't like staring into a big hole in the dash.
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