When you run out of room for gages?

This ties into my post in finishing up the water pump and repairs I just completed. I wanted to add an aftermarket coolant temperature gage (Bosch) and an aftermarket coolant pressure gage (glow shift max tow)

I measured the lower dash and had just barely enough room for a two gage pod, but it was made to mount upright on top of a dash.

Below:The three existing holes (red arrows were for mounting upright. Then I took a dremel, removed some plastic and JB welded steel clips for mounting it




Then painted it grey, not an exact match but closest I could find to my dash.




Below: Added threaded inserts and drilled a hole for the wiring.





Below: I had wired a longer brake controller pigtail onto the truck. I kept the supplied “illumination wire” originally with the brake controller for my two gages and moved the brake controller behind the access plate with the bag hook.





Below: Some of the wires had to be hooked up to the coolant pressure gage first, and then the gages attached to the pod. Then the excess wires were taped up and inserted back into the dash






Below: The max tow gage was already green with several brightness adjustments for daytime and nigh-time and selection is kept alive by constant 12V power. The Bosch gage used a 363 clear lamp. I found an Ebay seller who sold green 363’s for model trains. The green backlighting was perfect.





Below: With the gage pod mounted and my new gages👍