Thanks! We’re putting wire looms underneath, or he is, I’m having a beer and supervising.jaber wrote:Wow, it's a work of art...
Simply beautiful.
On the older rigs, the high beam indicator light is red, or reddish- I’m not sure when it all changed, but on the 63-72 era rigs they’re all red tinted and the hole for the light is actually in the speedometer. Jeep used some type of thin semi-translucent tape: green tape for the turn signals, red for high beam.twisted frame wrote:Very neat. It's originally orange, correct? My 73's high beam indicator is orange, but 73s got the AMC 3-circle pod gauge cluster. I've never actually seen the high beam indicator lit up on a Kaiser-era dash.
Personally, I'd love to change my entire cluster back-lighting to orange rather than green, but I haven't looked into it much. It seems like finding amber or orange colored "cones" or lenses that go over the bulb on the backside of the cluster would be hard or impossible to find.
It’s the stock cluster housing and pin out: The transfer case is the Dana 300, so it still uses the old school cable to calculate speed. It did clean up nicely, though.tedlovesjeeps71 wrote:Is that a restored cluster or digital aftermarket??
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Thanks for those comparison pics!66stepside wrote:On the older rigs, the high beam indicator light is red, or reddish- I’m not sure when it all changed, but on the 63-72 era rigs they’re all red tinted and the hole for the light is actually in the speedometer. Jeep used some type of thin semi-translucent tape: green tape for the turn signals, red for high beam.twisted frame wrote:Very neat. It's originally orange, correct? My 73's high beam indicator is orange, but 73s got the AMC 3-circle pod gauge cluster. I've never actually seen the high beam indicator lit up on a Kaiser-era dash.
62 recycled the lenses off the XJ cluster for the signals and high beam. I did detail clean the housing and 63 glass- I love those style instrument clusters. Wimbledon White was the color we used the the metal frames.
My 66, and 68 still have the red high beam:
will e wrote:The dash is beautiful. Nice work!
Thanks! I had a few spare bezels that were chromed at the factory back in the day for the 1414C, D, and X models. Jeep used at least two finishes on those bezels, maybe even up to three- hard to tell after all these years. I just polish the heck out of the parts prior to installation.Phils67 wrote:Did you have the trim rings around the cluster and speaker grille rechromed or are they NOS/reproduction? Mine are pitted pretty badly. I thougt my dash came out good buy yours looks way better! Seeing such nice trim rings really makes me want to replace/restore mine now. It just makes it that much nicer looking. Also what about the plastic trim where the column meets the dash? Ive never see a chrome one before. Looks sharp!
That looks great! Guess i know who i am gonna pm for restoring my next dash! Lol66stepside wrote:Thanks! I had a few spare bezels that were chromed at the factory back in the day for the 1414C, D, and X models. Jeep used at least two finishes on those bezels, maybe even up to three- hard to tell after all these years. I just polish the heck out of the parts prior to installation.Phils67 wrote:Did you have the trim rings around the cluster and speaker grille rechromed or are they NOS/reproduction? Mine are pitted pretty badly. I thougt my dash came out good buy yours looks way better! Seeing such nice trim rings really makes me want to replace/restore mine now. It just makes it that much nicer looking. Also what about the plastic trim where the column meets the dash? Ive never see a chrome one before. Looks sharp!
The chromed steering column trim piece was also part of the 60’s Custom package and shows up on the X and D models, too.
I’ve been collecting and reusing parts for many years.
Here’s the dash l did for my Panel Delivery Wagoneer (sold it awhile back):
That was one of my favorites.