There aren't many convenient ways to add custom-looking gauges to your interior. Sure, you can break out the fiberglass and incorporate some gauges into your one-off center console, but for the best bang-for-the-buck, pillar pods pack an incredible value. When one of our favorite project trucks needed some specialty gauges installed to keep track of some important engine functions, we knew that Auto Meter's A-pillar pod was a quick fix that would look great, especially after it was paint-matched to the rest of the interior. Once again we headed to Auto Essentials in Thousand Oaks, California, where Richard Chronister and his crew had the information flowing into the cab in no time.
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The factory A-pillar trim just pulled out of its top clip with a firm tug.
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The gauges that we selected to install are all electrical, which means they each have a se
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Richard labeled each gauge's wires on both ends and zip-tied them to existing wires runnin
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The gauge's lighting wires were soldered together and wired into the dash light dimmer swi
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With the driver-side dash trim removed, Richard wired the gauges' power supply into a cons
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The wires for the air/fuel meter were fed through expandable sheathing before passing thro
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