sounds like you got off pretty good and inexpensive for your dash. I just purchased every single piece to compeletely replace my dash, came up to about $5k for everything......I did not want refurbished guages and I am going for a certain look for mine. I also got the carbon fiber guages, they are bada$$!

I'd love to paint my plain white dash but, any idea where to get the lettering to label everything again?:drink:

I had Livorsi etch mine after I painted it.

SpeedFreek,

Have you thought about wrapping it?? I dont think it would be too expensive and they should be able to make it any color you want. Just a thought.

wrapping will cover up all the engravings so then what ????

spending money blindly :eek:

i dont call it spending $$$$ blindly but to get a updated look and have GPS, depth finder, all match and not look buggered up :drink: any completed pics ????

The company the wraps it can print whatever you want on the wrap. Just like a boat wrap. They can print the engravings.

love to see pics of a completed one :drink:

Me too. Im sure it could be done for under $150. Just an option. If i had a dated dash i would do it but im happy with mine.

it would have to look dayum good to spend all that time taking the dash panel apart and re soldering all them switch & indicators :drink:and i've never seen Vinyl that can look like paint/clear or powdercoat job

I would agree, hard to get depth in vinyl.

This is with paint and redone gauges.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5019/...a40c6b6b_b.jpg
Fountain Fever dash after paint by WIldman Grafix, on Flickr

L@@ks Awesome :ernaehrung004::ernaehrung004:

Wildman...That is really a SWEEEEEEEEET looking dash! I hope mine ends up looking half that good. I got my missing bezel for my DF yesterday so now I'm ready for the install. I hope I don't f**k it up during install.

Thanks,

Its amazing what some paint and new bezels will do, definitely worth it. I did add a GPS speedo at the same time.

Wildman...I've got 2 holes in my new dash that the old one didn't have. One on either side of my speedo and tach. I noticed you have a couple of indicator lights between your "tachs" and speedo. What are your lights for? I'm thinking if I can't find something useful to fill the holes I'll just put a dummy light in them.

You can wire in some LED warning lights so that if your high water temp or low oil psi,etc switches get tripped(IE warning buzzer goes off) the red led will light up letting you know there is a problem

Bingo, that's what mine are.

Does anyone know where you can find these gauges? gaffrig has discontuined them, I think I have a faulty oil pressure gauge. The needle jumps from 80 to 60 to 20 to 40 to 60, 40, 20, 0 then alarms! Only at idle, only on the water. I'm going to shoot a video of this when I go out again.

If you look in the bottom of the gauge and it states "gaffrig by Livorsi", you may be able to get Livorsi to repair. Just got all of my gaffrig gauges reworked by Livorsi. Livorsi is great to work with.

maybe i missed something, where does it say livrosi?

I'm sure you've already checked, but I would make sure the connections at the ground and sender are tight. ts27:drink::drink::drink:

I have replaced the sender with a new one from gaffrig. Doesn't the sender take it ground right off the motor? When I took the older one off (which looked pretty new like someone before me has tried this) it had looked like they had put silcone on the threads....but the new sender did the same thing. I have just did an oil change with new filter we shall see once I'm out on the water because I cannot create this problem while she's on the trailer. For 3 years my solution has been after the alarms go off shut down reset the motor start it up and leave it in neutral to raise the rpm's to keep the pressure up while getting out of the bay. Once the 5 mile and hour bouy is past she good to go!

Send it to Livorsi and they can fix it. If they can't I am getting all new gauges for my 47' Fountain and I will have plenty of old gauges.

Thanks dewayne6243,

Beggers can't be choosy but are they the discontuined gaffrig Redline Series like the one below?

You're right about the sender, but the ground I meant was at the gauge...just a shot in the dark. I'm no guage expert, but that's the 1st thing everyone told me to check when I was having trouble with my guages. Turned out that just about everyone of them were loose.:hitit::drink::drink::drink:

Hey Thanks I just got a new gps speedo when I replace my old liquid filled I will check out the ground leads.

thanks for all the input everyone

Obviously I dont have a fountain but this might give you an idea of what vinyl can look like..Its a great way to update a dash without spending an arm and a leg. I only spent about $75 having this vinyl designed, printed and shipped.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/p...ml#post3359687

WOW what a difference that made :ernaehrung004: i was hoping you were gunna change that cup holder :drink:

here are those pics sorry it took so long I had just got a new GPS speedo and wanted to install it before i took the new pic. The lights are not much different but i like trying to keep it original looking