Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 14:14:38 -0700
Reply-To: Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Intermittent low instrument reading?
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If you plan to remove the cluster anyways....
Check that the voltage regulator is secure to the copper on the blue
ribbon. Some versions of that regulator make their ground connection
to the blue ribbon via the mounting tab.
But the first thing I'd check is the cluster ground wire at the ground
star above the fuse panel then make sure the T14 connector is properly
connecting to the cluster.
And although this may not affect the cluster components.....
The early style cluster blue ribbons have a ground "loop" copper
trace. Ground goes "in" via one path to the cluster then out via
another to a brown ground wire to other non cluster loads. That "loop"
can burn out. IIRC though, if it burns out, it only affects the ground
"out" to the non cluster components.
image of "loop" on my 82 diesel blue ribbon
https://tinyurl.com/ycjegxom
On 9/4/18, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> The temp gauge has been reading low all along, but it read even lower when
> the gas gauge went low...or maybe both were completely out, though I can't
> confirm that... I was driving and was watching where I was going...smiley
> face
>
> .
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 11:39 AM Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So do both the temp and fuel gauge intermittently read low, lower, or
>> not at all at the same time?
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>>
>> On 9/4/18, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I've been having low temperature guage readings for quite some
>> > time...
>> > like just at or below the first line(84 van)...My fan goes on at the
>> point
>> > where the needle hits the LED...inconsistent, actually where that guage
>> > reads, but approximately like that usually.
>> > Received my gas guage began going wonky, too. Reading empty, then on
>> > next start, reading normally. I
>> > Is this a ground issue, or that little resistor, maybe? Where should
>> > I
>> > start? Thanks, DH
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil n
>>
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>>
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>>
>
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