Instrument Panel Woes

You're getting close to the end of your restoration or you are tired of not being able to see the instrument panel during a cruise night. Maybe you can't trust your gauges to monitor your engine, but you don't want to add some after market mechanical gauge set and ruin your interior after spending 3000.00 plus making it look new. Well, we are going to help you do the job yourself.

First thing is to check is your voltage limiter. This is the very simple to do. Simply pull the purple wire off of your temperature gauge sensor. Using an RMS-type digital meter, connect the red lead to the wire, and the other lead to the battery with the ignition key "ON." You should see a minimum of 4.5 volts on the meter. With the original style voltage limiter, it will go back to 0 Volts DC, then back up. If you use the new electronic limiter, you should see a steady voltage reading. If your limiter has a lower output less than 4.5 Volts DC or higher than 6 Volts DC, this is a bad limiter and needs to be replaced. Here at our restoration shop we only replace the voltage limiter with the NEW solid state constant voltage limiter. It provides a constant voltage output to the instrument gauges providing a more accurate and true reading. We will cover more problems like lighting and gauges in the future.

Hope this helps you out for now...G-Man