{"id":19530,"date":"2023-05-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=19530"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:46:13","slug":"zephyr-550-400-early-model-dual-gauges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20230524\/decoboco-cars\/zephyr550zr550\/zephyr-550-400-early-model-dual-gauges","title":{"rendered":"Zephyr 550\/400 Early Model Dual Gauges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in the day, the “dual gauges” were considered uncool
, but after all these years, they somehow look <\/strong>

“racing” to me now. When I started looking for them, they were surprisingly hard to find… <\/strong>
I searched everywhere, including overseas, but they’re incredibly rare.

Of course, they’re long discontinued from the factory.


I managed to get my hands on a set, so I wanted to swap them in before the inspection, but…
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The difference between dual gauges and the bullet-style is the presence of a fuel gauge.
It’s a bit of a pain,

but as they say, “beauty requires sacrifice.” <\/strong>Even Peeko would agree… right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So few wires! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The carb era really was nice…
It’s built with just the essentials and is so human-friendly (*\u00b4\u03c9\uff40*) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note that the trip reset on the dual gauges is a screw-in type.
*Of course, I didn’t know that either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since I’m not selling it, I’m in the camp that resets the mileage to zero (*\u00b4\u03c9\uff40*)
I’ve covered how to do it before, so please don’t misuse it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The meter bracket is subtly hitting something and won’t fit (\u00b4\uff1b\u03c9\uff1b`)
So much hassle for this… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This rib area is hitting, so I basically just cut it away!
But something else is still hitting…

What? What? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The key cylinder boss is slightly hitting.
I might need to remove the top bridge if I get time… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For now, I’m putting this on hold (\u00b4\uff1b\u03c9\uff1b`) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the day, the “dual gauges” were considered uncool , but after all these years, they somehow look “racing” to me now. When I started looking for them, they were surprisingly hard to find… I searched everywhere, including overseas, but they’re incredibly rare. Of course, they’re long discontinued from the factory. I managed to get my hands on a set, so I wanted to swap them in before the inspection, but… (\u00b4\uff1b\u03c9\uff1b`)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[614,607,601,612,613],"class_list":["post-19530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zephyr550zr550","tag-parent-child-meter","tag-zephyr-400","tag-zephyr-550","tag-zephyr550","tag-zr550"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}