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86 -> 87 Digidash compatibilty


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The digidash in my 86 GL-10 sucks, will an 87 dash swap?

 

Also, there appears to be a "shift up" light in the dash, that never lights, is that an option we never got, or something like air suspension that never works?

 

Some other neato things I discovered while tearing apart a digidash a while back to fix the temp gauge, I guess somewhere other than here, they had an indicator that told you what speed the cruise control is set at, cuz the display segments are in there, you have to actually take it apart to see them though.

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I don't think 87 is an odd year. My 87 Dash(and my last 87 dash) looks just like my 88 Digidash did. Connections, as far as I can remember from my 88 appear to be the same as well. To do the swap from 86 to 87, you will need, at minimum, FSM for both cars, some wire cutters and lost of electrical tape, solder and shrink wrap.

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Damn Rob you took that car to redline? Your braver than me!

 

As stated, the dash swap is not a direct plug-n-play, more mix-n-match.

 

I don't know anything about the shift up light or the CC thing.

 

There are at least two diffs between the units beside the outward appearance. The '85/'86 has the outside temp gauge in it and it has two odometers (I think this is internal and wouldn't affect wiring?), the '87+ does not.

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Sweet, you got the 315K car from Hood River eh?

 

My 86 GL-10 (remember the one I blew like $1800 total on :rolleyes: ) hit redline pretty fast. The beeper came on afew times for me, but no shift up light either.

 

The dash that Andrew was referring to with all those things you can see when its apart was mine cause my dash sucked.

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