I remember someone in marketplace selling one of those gauges that shows your incline and tilt angle -- it was swiped from some '80s Japanese 4wd vehicle -- Toyota? Mitsubishi? Someone please refresh my memory so I know which cars to peek into at the junkyard.

 

Thanks!

some 4WD Tercel wagons had 'em, and some of the early 4WD 4Runners I think....

Also some of the late 80's early 90's Mitsu montero's had them as well.

yeah early 4wd 4runners for sure. good luck finding one

Mid 80's sr5 4runners had them, and so did Montero's. I remember a while back seeing some for sale at Auto Zone or Advanced. I'm sure JC Whittny has them.

Cheapest place to get 'em would probably be the JY. I remember watching a couple on ebay get up to like $100+ a few months back. They are wicked cool and definitly worth looking for if you can get a good deal.

I went to an Jap wreckers ( this is in Australia btw ) and they had heaps of early 4runners and toyota surfs with them.

I know it wouldn't look as trick, but wouldn't just one of the cheap ball shaped compasses you can buy for a car work too? You could just park on a reasonably level spot and mark it for level, then go where your at the max say side-hill etc, etc. and mark it again?

Dodge raiders had them too. Same thing as an old montero only two doors. those guages are in a ton of vehicles in Costa Rica.

$9.95 bid or $11.95 Buy It Now price with free shipping

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jeep-CJ-YJ-TJ-Wrangler-Off-Road-Tilt-Gauge-Free-Ship_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ46100QQitemZ4603445187QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

Here's one from a tercel ... nice ...

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-Tercel-4Runner-Truck-INCLINOMETER-TILT-GAUGE_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33705QQitemZ8028528397QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

Here's annother from a 4-runner

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-Truck-4Runner-SR5-Inclinometer-Tilt-Gauge-MINT_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ50459QQitemZ8027818077QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

$9.95 bid or $11.95 Buy It Now price with free shipping

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jeep-CJ-YJ-TJ-Wrangler-Off-Road-Tilt-Gauge-Free-Ship_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ46100QQitemZ4603445187QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

Here's one from a tercel ... nice ...

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-Tercel-4Runner-Truck-INCLINOMETER-TILT-GAUGE_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33705QQitemZ8028528397QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

Here's annother from a 4-runner

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-Truck-4Runner-SR5-Inclinometer-Tilt-Gauge-MINT_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ50459QQitemZ8027818077QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

 

yeah the 4runner one is the one I was talking about.. those things are sweet

If you got one with the "4wd" light instead of the altimeter, it would be wicked easy to hook it up to your 4wd dash light. Would look super clean too. You could also hook up the background lights on the inclinometer to dash lights when you turn on your lights. Everything would look super good but you have to shell out $$$$ for a decent inclinometer . . .

I got the Tercel one from McBrat a few years back, i still need to wire it in, but its chillin on my dash now.

here's some pics of mine, mounted on the roof of my 82 Brat.

 

http://usmb.net/gallery/albuo95

 

I tied all the wires together to all light up at once, and they are tied into my dash lighting circuit.

Thats really cool Mick.I like that alot.I may have to get one of those.

It may say something about me, but the first thing i though of when I saw this was using a small car, like a civic, as an RTI ramp and calculating the lean of the car on how far up the hood/windshield you get. Then i saw it was a dash gauge, and all my visuals were ruined.