www.iFourWinns.com

I think what you do is put it up on a photo hosting site and then can link it to here.
for instance...
here's a few of mine...these are of my 4.3 top end rebuild after it blew both head gaskets a couple of years after a bad overheat. The last 2 are of it running after it was all back together. I use dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tr23hyy6srwfn ... l.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pu8ac8x71e5u ... l.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k18krrafa3489 ... k.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8fhnjbtutfjej ... 2.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1yyytu26xgohe ... 1.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/evphffy24u0cy ... 0.MOV?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/otc4vr4081vul ... 1.MOV?dl=0

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

Ya! I looked at that. Too much trouble to go through all that. If and when the Forum comes up with a simpler method of posting photos, I will. In the meantime, my new set of dash guages looks exactly like the others that have been posted. Again the installation was a simple plug and play and look much better than the original auto style setup

That's great. amazing that there is no wiring to do except for connect the harness.

I had my boat out this weekend, and the VDO cluster was working good. I only heard the low pressure alarm a couple times for 3-5 seconds on a couple of startups... and my mechanical guage in the engine compartment always shows the oil pressure jumping right up to proper pressure. I'll do the A&A kit when my VDO finally gives out, but at 19+ years it's still going strong (mostly).

LouC that top end rebuild looks great!

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"Knot Easy" 2000 Horizon 240 Volvo 5.7GS /SX
tow: 2017 Honda PILOT EXL-AWD
prev. boats:
'87 Chaparral 198CXL 4.3 OMC Cobra
'69 Jetstar 16ft Ski Boat, 115hp Yamaha
'68 Aluminum Jon Boat, 3hp Sears
'64 Water Wings

Yes, it is pretty much a plug and play with the way they included the mating connector for the exiting harness. I did have some intermittent issues again with the oil pressure not registering on the new gauges. Fortunately, I had left the mechanical gauge in place and verified that I did have oil pressure. So after narrowing this issue down, I finally ran a new 18ga light blue line from the sender to the harness connector in the dash. Had to purchase the correct connector pins and a crimping tool to this. Oil pressure gauge working correctly. It should! Everything including the sender on back has now been replaced!!

Glad there was a satisfactory resolution to this problem. The funny thing is I bought a set of Faria gauges to replace my now 31 year old Medallion gauges about 5 years ago but they are still sitting on a shelf in the garage because all the old Medallion gauges still work, just fine!

Hopefully I can get a few years out of the top end overhaul. It was not really a hard job, what took the longest was cleaning out the bolt holes in the block and the block deck surface for the new head gaskets. I replaced all the head bolts because the originals were pretty corroded (raw water cooling in salt water). If it doesn't last I have some options, I can still get a new GM marine 4.3 long block add closed cooling and start over again. As part of the this process I also learned to rebuild the Rochester Quadrajet and despite the complexity of this carb, it was not a hard job either, in fact they are easier to take apart than a Holley from my experience. I tried the Holley 4160 thinking the Q-Jet was too old to work well after a rebuild and it turned out to be a mistake. The Holley even though supposed calibrated for the 4.3 never ran right, much too rich. To my surprise I took the Q-Jet apart, it was pretty clean inside, just gave it a good cleaning, blew everything out with compressed air re-assembled with new gaskets and it started up and ran 100% better. So now I have a Holley 4160 that is practically new also sitting on that shelf in the garage, lol. Over the summer I am going to go through it to find out what was wrong with it, I took off the primary metering block and did not find any clogged passages or anything to explain the rich running. Next I will pull off the secondary side to check that. After that I might drop it off at the local carb shop and see what they say. Just out of curiosity.

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

Curious how much the replacement set was at a&a? I just sent them an inquiry as my vdo cluster just died.

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'99 Horizon 200

I'm just catching up on my old thread. I'm glad George was able to add the new Faria replacement cluster from A & A marine.

I still have the intermittent problem. When the low oil pressure alarm sounds, I unplug the fuse to the whole gage cluster, use the boat about a half hour, and can usually plug the fuse back in and it works fine the rest of the day. (of course I checked the mechanical oil pressure gage I added to verify oil-pressure).

My how the years have gone by...

Ray

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"Knot Easy" 2000 Horizon 240 Volvo 5.7GS /SX
tow: 2017 Honda PILOT EXL-AWD
prev. boats:
'87 Chaparral 198CXL 4.3 OMC Cobra
'69 Jetstar 16ft Ski Boat, 115hp Yamaha
'68 Aluminum Jon Boat, 3hp Sears
'64 Water Wings

Good to hear from you Ray! It may be that heat/resistance builds up and causes erroneous readings then when it’s unplugged it goes back to normal. Still haven’t changed my old gauges. This spring I have to repair some rot in the starboard side coaming panel and will replace the old OMC control with the Seastar Ch 1700 remote control I bought some years back and never installed. Hopefully everyone has a good season!

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II

It may be worth a try to run a wire from the sender directly to the gauge like I finally did after replacing everything that could contribute to this issue. I know that this violated all the rules of “good troubleshooting”, but in the end I got a working oil pressure gage. Also, was able to determine that a PO had done some work on the engine harness and didn’t do the best job in splicing and covering them. Not sure what kind of wire he used but I suspect it wasn’t marine grade since there was lots of corrosion. This may have been the culprit. I have a used replacement engine harness that I have completely stripped of covering and verified every connection. When I get some time I will eventually replace the one on the boat. Love the replacement dash unit. Just need to replace the trim sender unit on the outdrive now. I will wait til I remove the outdrive for a gimbal bearing replacement as this will allow better access to the sender entry point through the transom.