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OK, I got the 4-gauge panel from the instrument cluster of a 1986 or 1987 300SD today at Windsor Pick and Pull. I don't think the gauge panel will swap into my '87 diesel but I'll pull its cluster and compare. If that won't go, I'll try to build the vacuum gauge into my panel.
Incidentally, the SD gauge panel has only a gas pump symbol on it -- it does not say "unleaded" or have any words at all besides the symbol. If I can adapt this thing correctly, I can transfer the gauge face to my cluster and overwrite "ECONOMY" with "BOOST."
Success at this project will solve a worry that I've had for some time -- how to build boost, EGT, and volts gauges into the '87, which doesn't have as big an ashtray as the earlier W123 cars. You can get three gauges in a 123 ashtray but only two in a 124. With the boost gauge built into the instrument cluster, I can have the EGT and volts in the ashtray area.
Jeremy
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"Buster" in the '95
Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .343,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 148,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 177,300 (2026 projected)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 668,300
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970
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