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Month: July 2025

Month: July 2025

Gauge install completed, blown fuse fix ahead …

26 July, 2025 jamesebrooksjr 0 Comments 55 Chevy wagon Blog 6:07 am

Friday, July 25, 2025 Today I made progress on my new set of Autometer gauges in my 55 wagon. I had the gauges connected by late yesterday,, but didn’t have each gauge securely mounted in

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Sometimes gauging progress isn’t always easy, accurate or simple as it seems …

25 July, 2025 jamesebrooksjr 0 Comments 55 Chevy wagon Blog 5:26 am

Thursday, July 24, 2025 It took some time today, but I successfully mounted my Autometer 3-gauge panel below the glove compartment door on my 55 Chevy wagon. The new Autometer gauge cluster — consisting of

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Gauging progress? Here’s hoping!

24 July, 2025 jamesebrooksjr 0 Comments Blog 7:40 am

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 I spent the afternoon trying to remove the old cheap-ass trio of gauges from my 55 wagon and replacing it with the Autometer 3-gauge panel with larger 2-5/8 inch gauges. The

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Have a modern, aftermarket tilt column in your Tri-Five? No need to reinvent the wheel to column mount that tach!

21 July, 2025 jamesebrooksjr 0 Comments 55 Chevy wagon Blog Tachometer tales 4:33 am

Sunday, July 20, 2025 After fabricating my own tach mount for use with my CPP tilt steering column in my 55 Chevy 2-door wagon, I decided to avoid reinventing the wheel this time around. Unhappy

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New: Added a GPS speedometer; Chinese carb update

21 July, 2025 jamesebrooksjr 0 Comments 55 Chevy wagon Blog 4:09 am

Saturday, July 19, 2025 Been a while since my last update, so I thought it time to post again. CHINESE ELDEBROCK CLONE CARB. The 55 wagon hadn’t run smoothly since I drove it home the

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