I believe the DD signal converters were more expensive and the time of doing this and had heard questionably feedback from others. I’ll try it in the next one 👍
I would think this video would be more popular. Im putting a 6.0L/ 4L80e in my '63 C10...I would love to put the $1500 dakota digital gauges in...but im not that rich.
I appreciate that man, I thought it would catch on too ha! Yeah the cost for aftermarket gauges are too high for budget builds. This keeps it pretty simple too in my opinion. It's a good thing I didn't spend the 1000-1500 on an aftermarket cluster as I had to do a mild rebuild on the 6.0 shortly after getting it going.
So glad you posted this…I (my dad) did this conversion on a T56 years ago so we could keep the stock gauges in our 68 Camaro. Fast forward to now, I’m heavily considering getting the Dakota Digital gauges, but that means I’ll need to reverse this mod to get back to a digital vss. Any idea what the part name/number is for that collar you removed from the shaft (replaced by that blue gear thingy majig)?
Hey I think this may be what you're looking for. I would definitely verify this fits a T56, but I just looked up slip yoke sleeve. www.summitracing.com/parts/ado-8654063?seid=srese1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAwbitBhDIARIsABfFYIJ-45vEWJ8FhDCXp_ieYK_TcD0lsULebYmsPDoirLXaaQbbvfp1UNsaAoNtEALw_wcB
@@cwsgarage thank you! This put me on the right path. The t56 has a different part (speedometer reluctor wheel), but this helped a lot. My next quest is to figure out if my tail housing was modified in a way that I can go back to vss or not. Looks like a lot of the vss to cable mods included machining the tail housing , but resulted in both vss and a mechanical drive being in place. Time to crawl under the car I guess!
@@jorgesierra4714 Working good so far, had a small leak around the housing that the Speedo gear goes into but I dried it out and put a little JB weld on it and it’s good now.
for the price they are asking it's would be easier to just use the Dakota Digital electronic signal to mechanical conversion box
I believe the DD signal converters were more expensive and the time of doing this and had heard questionably feedback from others. I’ll try it in the next one 👍
Thanks didn't know an 4L80e mechanical speedometer adapter existed
I didn’t either, they need to market these things for sure. I added a link in the video description where I got it from.
Thanks for the updates!
Anytime! Thank you for watching!
I been waiting for this one.
Sorry it took an extra week before i could get to it. Hopefully it’s helpful or informative at least lol. Thanks for watching!
I would think this video would be more popular. Im putting a 6.0L/ 4L80e in my '63 C10...I would love to put the $1500 dakota digital gauges in...but im not that rich.
I appreciate that man, I thought it would catch on too ha! Yeah the cost for aftermarket gauges are too high for budget builds. This keeps it pretty simple too in my opinion. It's a good thing I didn't spend the 1000-1500 on an aftermarket cluster as I had to do a mild rebuild on the 6.0 shortly after getting it going.
Damn you powder coater did a great job!! Lol
Lol he’s cheap too! 🤣
So glad you posted this…I (my dad) did this conversion on a T56 years ago so we could keep the stock gauges in our 68 Camaro. Fast forward to now, I’m heavily considering getting the Dakota Digital gauges, but that means I’ll need to reverse this mod to get back to a digital vss. Any idea what the part name/number is for that collar you removed from the shaft (replaced by that blue gear thingy majig)?
Hey I think this may be what you're looking for. I would definitely verify this fits a T56, but I just looked up slip yoke sleeve. www.summitracing.com/parts/ado-8654063?seid=srese1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAwbitBhDIARIsABfFYIJ-45vEWJ8FhDCXp_ieYK_TcD0lsULebYmsPDoirLXaaQbbvfp1UNsaAoNtEALw_wcB
@@cwsgarage thank you! This put me on the right path. The t56 has a different part (speedometer reluctor wheel), but this helped a lot. My next quest is to figure out if my tail housing was modified in a way that I can go back to vss or not. Looks like a lot of the vss to cable mods included machining the tail housing , but resulted in both vss and a mechanical drive being in place. Time to crawl under the car I guess!
@@tkmoseley Well I believe there have been enough T56 destroyed if nothing else you should be able to find a tailhousing lol
@@cwsgarage ha, true story.
Any updates on how good or bad this works?
@@jorgesierra4714 Working good so far, had a small leak around the housing that the Speedo gear goes into but I dried it out and put a little JB weld on it and it’s good now.
@@cwsgarage apreciate the response
Orange is the new black 😂
Lol that’s what the previous owner was thinking. 🤣