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440electrtic?
Dodge Dakota
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1/31/2005
20:32:28
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i have a 94 dakota and i took out the blown 318 to swap it with my 78 440/727 and i already know about schumaker and the mechanical aspect of installing it but i'm having problems with the wiring harness. I want to take out the fuel injection wires and 02 sensers and other stuff like that, but i still want to have my gages work and my lights and etc.Any info or descriptions would help. Thanks
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prple-gaseatr
Dodge Dakota
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2/01/2005
16:32:21
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try summitracing, the tech people know alot and can make reccomendations, i think painless wiring might have something for this kind of application. but check it out, im sure someone will have more info on here also
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IntenseDak39
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2/01/2005
17:10:20
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i'd offer you help but my trucks electronics are nothing like yours
but here's what i have
using stock wiring for lights... did nothing to them.
have no engine harness...
have no computer
using aftermarket gauges
works well so far
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440electric
Dodge Dakota
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2/01/2005
19:49:45
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thanks, what about abs. Does the comp under the hood control everything or is there also 1 inside the cab?
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IntenseDak39
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2/01/2005
22:22:17
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i removed abs...
gonna install a line lock with the abs unit
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GraphiteDak
GenIII
2/01/2005
23:28:38
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Before I got my beloved Dakota.
I bought a beater Chevy El Camino from a friend.
All of the gauges were busted.
the car wasn't electronic BEFORE my mods but like Intense I made my gauges from scratch.
I ripped out the stock stuff. installed a new bezel I made with the small chrome gauges, water temp, volts, oil pressure, etc. Installed a tach on one side and using an identical tach I pulled off the face plate and etched a new face for it to make a matching speedometer!
It f**king worked!!!!!!!!
before I got to fix up the POS anymore I made it to the point I could trade in my other car for the Dakota (was still upside down though).
The tach reads off of pulses. All i did was take the original speedo housing where the cable plugged in and made a starwheel thing with holes. Calculated the gears down to that starwheel to give the correct amount of pulses to move the needle accurately.
Of course your Dakota already has pulses coming from the speedo sensor. You would just need a circuit to feed the tach with a new face plate. Divide the pulses down to be accurate using some electronics.
With what I've learned since doing that 2 years ago I could make a digital readout speedometer.
But I'm not about to do that to my Dak. But my ATV is another story.
Anyway. Just an idea.
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