[Vwdiesel] Instrumentation (diesel or otherwise)

[Mark Shepherd]

Here's a pic of my standard (UK) issue diesel instrument cluster. (Note we
don't need an upshift indicator) maybe we know how to use a shifter
better... [as if...]
Note the fuel and the water temp/oil pressure light gauges in the middle of
the cluster. Big clock with no gauges standard on diesel and on early
basic model gasser 'Quantae' . Luxury gassers gained rev counter with 2
gauge slots allowing for digital clock and upshift/ economy driving in the
middle. By the mid 80's, the economy gauge disappeared and coolant moved
out of rev counter leaving only fuel in the rev counter. The export issueof
diesel rev counter never appeared here AFAIK. However I have one and it has
the 2 slots for gauges like the afore-mentioned early gassers. I will be
abandoning the digital clock option when I remove the analogue clock....
Phew was that a little longwinded?
By the way the rev counter you see in the 'foreground' is the one I found
in a lorry. It was a six cylinder engine; but the alternator output must
have coincided with our  TDs.crank-brush-pulley ratio. It is also a little
short on the range with FSD reached at about 90mph. (I usually travel at
about 70 on the highway anyway) Its normally near the shifter but I put it
into the photo to a... to a... to a... Oh I dunno... to photograph it...

http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/6341/mydieselinstrumentcluster6mo.jpg

Great drawings David... Strange thing is that some of my Quantae have heat
out of the door vents and cold out of the middle and some have it the other
way round!

Miser