2000 Sport Gauges

The Good: Fired up the boat this weekend in the drive way with the bucket method. Gosh fuel injection is nice...push the button after all winter and it fires right up. The Fiance and Mother will LOVE driving this thing!!!

The Bad: The tach does NOT work on these stock 2000 gauges. I know there is a full replacement kit out there for the crappy digital gauges CC thought were the next best thing but sheesh they are expensive!!!!! Are there things we could look into to try to fix these current digital gauges? I'm sure the speedometer doesn't work either but we didn't drop the boat in to test that. I would really like to have a tach. We might just have to drop the cash on the replacement set. that is sucketh.

I replaced the factory gauges with the suggested Faria replacements. I think they look much better than the digital guages. IMHO

I didn't think the price was too bad, but that may have been relative to the Teleflex replacements.

The install was pretty easy. I did have to cut a hole for the paddle wheel, but after a few practice runs on a 2x4, it worked well, too.

The gauges was the first thing I did on my 2000 Pro Air, actually, I didn't to them myself, took them to dry dock in Angola, IN and let them do it. The PO had already bought the Faria upgrade kit, which are far and away better looking than the digital ones, in my opinion...not to mention the fact that they actually work.

First question, do you have perfect pass? The issue I had was without perfect pass, they had to put a new paddle wheel in the hull because the Farias don't use the pidots the way the digital ones do. I believe if you have perfect pass it already has the paddle wheel, but I can't say for sure. The next problem was placing it, since there were already two intakes in the bottom that he had to avoid.

Edit: spelling pitot with a d, -1. my bad

We have two pitot pickups and NO perfect pass.

What about this kit?



NO factory ballast.

IAughtNaut wrote: How comfortable are you with drilling a hole in your hull?

Not. haha

Dad will not go for that. He's already depressed his gauges are CRAP! Now I have to tell him we have to drill into his new boat? Might as well tell him he has to shop for home decor with my mom.

I was the same way, the idea of putting a hole in the bottom of the boat scared the crap out of a rookie like me. It was almost 200 miles to tow it from Cleveland to Angola, but the peace of mind I got from knowing I had somebody who knew what they were doing working on it was worth way more than the time and gas. Don't know much about Iowa, is there a dealer near you?

yes, its in the little baggie on the left

I believe the paddle wheel is actually the piece attached to the long cable. The plastic bag contains the sleeve and plug for the paddle wheel hole.

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Mike nice feature on the homepage. I can see how it would be hard to drill a hole that big in the bottom of your boat.

Do any of the gauge manufacturers make a pitot driven speedo anymore?

Sheesh..hmmm that'd be sweet. You know what I really want to do? Put the dash from our 90 on the new boat.

Although that dash had problems back in the day too...dad's a pretty good electrical guru so he basically had to rewire the whole '90 dash because connections were dropping and it was just a mess!

I would LOVE a tach, and two airguides in the sport. I'd make those airguides my b1tch.

Well...I will have to chat with pops and see what he'd like to do then I guess...

mdvalant wrote: I would LOVE a tach, and two airguides in the sport.

Ha, shoulda bought a '98-99 then!

Anyone considering a '00-02 Nautique should know going in that the digital gauges will need to be replaced, probably sooner rather than later. They were problematic from the outset and now theyre 10 years old.

mdvalant wrote: The tach does NOT work on these stock 2000 gauges. We might just have to drop the cash on the replacement set.

mdvalant wrote: Well duh.

Exactly.