Sometime in the near future I'm going to be junking my truck. To much rust and frame rot. I plan on salvaging the motor as it has 150000 on it and slowly tear it to the block and rebuild it. My only question is how hard is it to salvage the electronics or would it be easier to swap to carb and mechanical gauges. The motor will most likely be in a small 2 seater buggy with a swap to a manual tranny. Hopefully a junk 2500 frame and axles. With just a steel cage over it. All I really would want gauge wise is trans and coolant temps, oil pressure, and RPMs and maybe battery gauge.

 

Just grab the PCM, engine harness, and dash harness. Should have everything you need there. Instrument cluster wouldn't hurt you either.... as I am unsure of just what tach signal the PCM sends to the cluster....

 

How hard is it to pull the cluster? Is it one piece? the engine harness shouldn't be bad. Is it easy to install a switch and push button to start the truck instead of the key?

 

Cluster is pretty easy. Just pull the bezel (six or so bolts), then four, I think, on the cluster, and out it comes. Take the harness too.

 

Sounds good. Thank you. The computer shouldn't go into limp or anything later on when I reinstall it?

 

Provided it has all its appropriate inputs, should be fine.