Amp to volt gauge replacement

[Dartvader440gt]

So I am planning on doing this conversion. Is there anyplace that makes a good factory looking replacement volt gauge? I'd like to be able to mount it back in the original amp gauge spot in the dash.

 

[Professor Fate]

Make/model/year and Std. or Rally dash...

 

[Dartvader440gt]

69 Dart standard dash.

 

[NoCar340]

Nobody offers one for sale, but I believe some of the gauge restoration places can make a "sorta correct" one for you. A friend looked at having it done by Auto Instruments. They could do it, but they don't have a "Volts" mask to screen the gauge face, so it would've been the ammeter face with the needle reading volts. He passed.

 

[Professor Fate]

Ammeter to Voltmeter...who does it?

 

[CRUZE 418]

RT/Engineering, no longer in business, not sure who bought them?

 

[RBConvert]

RT/Engineering, no longer in business, not sure who bought them?

That must be real recent because I got a voltage limiter from them about a month ago.

 

[NoCar340]

RT/Engineering, no longer in business, not sure who bought them?

They're still in business, but having dealt with them for more than a decade, I've never seen where they offered voltmeter conversions.

 

[67Dart273]

The old thread posted above is the only go to I know about. I was happy with mine, left the original needle on the voltmeter. Some guys superglued the old ammeter needle onto the new voltmeter to better match it. I used the face of my ammeter, and there is a pot adjustment in there, so you can set 14V right at the ammeter center scale. This of course causes the meter to run "centered" just like the ammeter with the battery charged and normalized and running

 

[CRUZE 418]

I stand corrected then, I thought someone had bought them. Have their circuit boards in my '69.

 

[NoCar340]

I stand corrected then, I thought someone had bought them. Have their circuit boards in my '69.

RT Specialties was sold. They made "reproduction"--and I use that term loosely--tachometers. That might be the reason you thought Real Time Engineering got sold.

 

[CRUZE 418]

Sounds like we have too many companies that start with RT. This is a page from MCG. Don't think that they were in the circuit or electrical side, I don't know. So, it must have been RT something else. Always thought RT Specialties was fasteners, but guess it's more than that. I shouldn't have said anything. I'll get out.

 

[NoCar340]

I'll get out.

I will too. I was thinking of Charger Specialties.

 

[Professor Fate]

It's all okay, guys- lots of similar names DO get confusing after a while!

 

[Dartvader440gt]

They're still in business, but having dealt with them for more than a decade, I've never seen where they offered voltmeter conversions.

Reading all this, I did end up buying their voltage regulators for my cars. Some peace of mind. Never knew these were available. Thanks.

 

[Dana67Dart]

Wasnt in 76 or there abouts, the alt meter changed to a remote sensing one?

Would it possibly swap into 73-75 clusters?

And maybe with some work the 67-72?

 

[slantsixdan]

Wasnt in 76 or there abouts, the alt meter changed to a remote sensing one?

'71 on big cars, '76 on A-bodies.

Would it possibly swap into [pre-'76] clusters?

Not directly, no.

 

[slantsixdan]

Is there anyplace that makes a good factory looking replacement volt gauge? I'd like to be able to mount it back in the original amp gauge spot in the dash.

See here for links and info.