Topic: will a 83 guage cluster work on 80?

[SKr3Wjeeps!!]

I'm thinking about doing this on my truck.

[kneedownnate]

No, the plugs are all different.  You're gonna need to stick to 79-81 gauges.

[lilbuddy]

It will work, you just need to cut the plugs off the 83 harness and match the wires to the 81 wires. Theres a link on here that BigMike wrote down all the wires to connect...

Im going to do this in my truck. I like the 82-83 gauges better than my 81 gauges. I dont like having my broken tach and not just that I want a tach and I dont like the Auto Meter tach I have. Ill get the link

[lilbuddy]

Well not what I thought I saw, but I found this....

there is a how to on swapping those gauges from Barney that I used, it was very straighforward, just required pushing out pins and moving them around - and adding a tach wire. But this is simply a SR5 swap, not different years..

For the record, here are the pinout of SR5 vs non-SR5 gauge for 83:

SR5     non-SR5     wire color       function
1        1            GY           Right turn signal indicator
2       
3        3            BR (B BR)    Speed sensor (-) ground
4        6            GL           Speed sensor (+)
5
6
7        23           YG           Water temp gauge
8        9            RW           Panel lights (+)

9        15           YR           Fuel Gauge
10        12           Y            Ignition switched power
11        21           YB           Oil Pressure switch (idiot light)
12        22           YW           Charge (idiot light)
13        14           WB           Ground
14                                  Tach input - must be wired to igniter
                                                yellow
15        17           GB           Left turn signal indicator
16        16           RB           Panel lights (-)

17
18
19        11           G            4WD
20
21        19           BY           Seat belt
22
23        13           RG           High Beam
24        20           GW           Brake


You might be able to do it.