Stewart Warner Gauges
 

How or do the new greenline gauges differ from vintage late 60's gauges? Also what about the Deluxe line, same question. I'm asking about the 2 1/16 and 2 5/8 oil pressure and water temperature. Did the Yenkos use mechanical or electric gauges? Thanks

These are the repro's, they have obvious differences to the originals - JoeB prob has plenty of NOS one he can post pics of....

NOS 2 5/8 Water & Oil pressure
 

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Just bought a bunch of Greenline SW's for a boat resto I'm closing in on. They may not be exactly the same but do seem a very period design...….Bill S

I looked at those a couple years ago and I still like them. Just ordered a set of those.

Any one have an opinion on the deluxe gauges, old vs new? Also were electric gauges used much back in the day? I remember the early 70's here, Sun tach and SW oil and water gauge were standard in lots of cars. As I remember everything was mechanical. Did Yenko use mechanical or electric gauges as an option. How were they routed through the firewall? Drilled a big hole? Hoping that Joe, the gauge guru, pops in.

I lean toward the classic SW gauges -- of course I am old school. The Nova I am building has mechanical water and trans temp, oil pressure, and a volt gauge. Had to build my own four gauge panel -- all I could find were three gauge. Craig

As far as I know, Yenko only used mechanical SW gauges. As with anything, if you're super fussy and are determined to find differences between old and new I'm sure you can... but I personally think they did a pretty good job with the new ones.

Did they put 2 5/8 or 2 1/16 gauges in the Yenko's.

Dave
67 Nova Boy

Both 2 1/16" and 2 5/8" were used. In 69 they installed these 2 1/16" pre-packaged triple gauge assemblies in many cars. Dixco Hustlers on the bottom as used in '70 in the Deuces.

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I think you would be pretty "hard pressed" to to tell the difference. Plus you have piece of mind knowing the gauges are new and you don't have to fuss around with getting the old ones calibrated or checked. 90% of people won't know the difference.

At a car show one time a judge thought that the old Chevrolet over the counter dealer tachometer on my dashboard was a fuzzbuster. LOL

Just my .02

Rich

They are pretty close, the biggest diff are the dots between the numerical increments. This didn't bother me, I bought 'em for Ben's Nova because they were new and I didn't have to mess with any old & broken stuff....

So, I went and bought the tach as well.....