1963 Dodge Dart 270 Convertible for the Wife
5 hour round trip drive to meet a super nice fellow early A-Body guy with a collection of old Mopars. He parted with his last '63/'64 cluster so I could get a gas gauge. I will likely try to rewind my old one and then restore this dash like I did mine for someone to have a turn key restored cluster for their old Dart.
Installed the Real Time Engineering electronic regulator as the one in the new gas gauge clear got hot as the bimetallic strip was not straight and the wires where black. Bend the points out so it could not touch and snipped the ground on the NiChrome wire for the regulator heater so it could not short things out. Used the supplied resistor to test things out, the 10 ohm should peg the the needles.. Crap I just remembered I did not paint the needle orange!!!! It is stinking hot.... it was going to be over 115F where I was south of Phoenix and it is 95 here but the storms are building.
I'm waiting for the comments @billccm......
5 hour round trip drive to meet a super nice fellow early A-Body guy with a collection of old Mopars. He parted with his last '63/'64 cluster so I could get a gas gauge. I will likely try to rewind my old one and then restore this dash like I did mine for someone to have a turn key restored cluster for their old Dart.
Installed the Real Time Engineering electronic regulator as the one in the new gas gauge clear got hot as the bimetallic strip was not straight and the wires where black. Bend the points out so it could not touch and snipped the ground on the NiChrome wire for the regulator heater so it could not short things out. Used the supplied resistor to test things out, the 10 ohm should peg the the needles.. Crap I just remembered I did not paint the needle orange!!!! It is stinking hot.... it was going to be over 115F where I was south of Phoenix and it is 95 here but the storms are building.
I'm waiting for the comments @billccm......
