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bazook

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Joined: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 1082 Location: brisbane logan
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 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:15 am |
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does any one here run after market gauges that dont fog up or is this to much rice for a zook
I run speco gauges and mine are always fogged up, this is in a soft top zook
I've had vdo but there a no go, so im guessing oil filled would be the way to go
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stockman

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Joined: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 5319 Location: Canberra
Vehicle: 4wd
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 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:16 am |
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What about some never fog glass?
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royce

omnipotent being
Joined: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:30 pm Posts: 17216 Location: Pluto
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 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:20 am |
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yeah liquid filled, thats what its for
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stocker
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:16 am Posts: 941 Location: Shidoni!
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 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:37 am |
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I Run VDO Oil Pressure & VDO Voltmeter, they work fine, and don't fog up...
the liquid filled ones are to stop the needle fluctuating rapidly making them easier to read and giving you a more accurate reading.
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buzbox
Joined: Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 3600 Location: Wollongong NSW
Vehicle: LWB Sierra & XL7
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 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:35 am |
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I've never had or seen Autometer guages fog up, I have had one of their liquid filled guages that the liquid leaked out of it though 
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fordem
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:30 pm Posts: 2656 Location: Georgetown, Guyana
Vehicle: APK416, A6G415, A6N415
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I've got Equus oil pressure & voltmeter, mounted side by side in the bottom DIN slot - one fogs, the other doesn't, and for the life of me I can't figure out why - they're both exposed to the same temperature/humidity changes etcetera.
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VAXXi
Joined: Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:22 pm Posts: 46 Location: Romania
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On a side note: usually, fogging in a closed space (be it a head lamp, a tail light or some other enclosure) means there's humidity trapped inside. On head lamps for example, you have a little rubber tube which allows humidity to escape and the inside gets dry. Maybe it's worth checking if you have the same for the indicators, and one of them has the air vent obstructed.
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fordem
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:30 pm Posts: 2656 Location: Georgetown, Guyana
Vehicle: APK416, A6G415, A6N415
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I used to think so myself - but - both gauges are open to the atmosphere on the back - there's no seal or anything - the lamp is in a plastic holder that snaps into a hole, and I would have thought that the warmth from the lamp would bake that moisture out.
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jonno_racing

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Joined: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:30 pm Posts: 8164 Location: Tassie
Vehicle: suzuki
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my specos fog up 2, but only 2 of them, i thought it must have been from me hoseing them!
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bazook

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Joined: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 1082 Location: brisbane logan
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 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:54 pm |
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i wonder if marine ones are the go
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want33s

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Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:30 pm Posts: 8134 Location: Sunshine Coast Qld
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Autometer liquid filled gauges are crap... The numbers all fall off the face.
If you want GOOD quality gauges buy PRICOL in plain or liquid filled.
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