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Newer white faced Cluster into a 98?

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I have gotten tired of the Black faces on my cluster, I seen where someone else here put a SportTrac cluster in their Truck and i am basically just wondering if its plug and play or if there is some repinning to be done on the Cluster plugs? Thanks guys.
 



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Plug and play, you'll just need to swap over your odometer.;) Also came in '01+ Sports
 






Plug and play. LOTS of threads in the archives discuss this mod. It is a pain if you want to match your current mileage though. To avoid all that, I just took the white faced overlays and red needles to put them on my current cluster. Here's a shot of the finished product: (this was in my '00 Sport, but I've since swapped it over to my '99 EB)

whitefaced_cluster_Sport_.jpg
 






Plug and play, you'll just need to swap over your odometer.;) Also came in '01+ Sports

How hard is it to swap?.. But either way i'm not at all worried about the odometer lol, so thanks guys.

Awesome pic celly.. had to look at it twice to realize that yours is in KM/h instead of the MPH i'm used to lol.
 






His fuel gauge is also in Litres... :thumbsup:

Unscrew, plug and play. There are threads...
 






Awesome pic celly.. had to look at it twice to realize that yours is in KM/h instead of the MPH i'm used to lol.

Yeah, it was hard to find one in Canada. Found a boneyard in Quebec that had one (long ways away). I had also scored a mph one from the US too.

Make sure you get a 2WD one if yours is 2WD or AWD and a 4WD one if yours is 4WD. I made the mistake of getting a 2WD one from the US. The rightmost outerlay is different (4Hi and 4Lo gels). I also wanted km/h so I got a 4WD version from Quebec.

When I swapped over to the AWD Eddie Bauer, then the extra 2WD overlay came in handy. :D
 






you can sort of see mine in this picture. I kept my black surround though vs the grey. Also kept my black gear selection part

new_cage_front.jpg
 






Does it really Matter if i get a 2wd or 4wd Version? My truck is AWD, But as long as i'm not using the lights i could wire them up for something else... I was actually thinking about getting a 4wd Radio Bezel (with the 4wd Selector switch), and wiring the switch into relays to use for the 2 light bars i'm planning for the roof. It would be neat to the have "4wd" light come on when i turn my trail lights on lol. Kind of a reminder that they are up there blinding all on coming cars (i used to always forget to turn the ones off on my yota).
 






If it's AWD it won't matter. The 2wd might even be cleaner since it won't say 4x4 High and 4x4 low. Your truck shouldn't have lights in the cluster there anyway...
 






If it's AWD it won't matter. The 2wd might even be cleaner since it won't say 4x4 High and 4x4 low. Your truck shouldn't have lights in the cluster there anyway...

I went with a 2wd one because I went to a manual t-case. Also went to a 2wd Ranger stereo surround. Don't use the rear wiper :p:
 






If it's AWD it won't matter. The 2wd might even be cleaner since it won't say 4x4 High and 4x4 low. Your truck shouldn't have lights in the cluster there anyway...

Precisley. In my AWD cluster, it's not even wired for the bulbs.
 






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