[Chrysler300] Gages

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Hi,

Some time ago I asked for help in getting my gas and temp. gages working 
properly, and received help from several people.  Thanks very much for your help.  
Now, in case I can be helpful to others who have been having the same kind of 
problems, I'll try to explain how I got them working this morning.

I have a few extra instrument clusters, so I tried switching some parts back 
and forth in different combinations, and on the last try they worked!  What I 
switched were the circuit boards and the things connected to the gas gages 
that look like condensors (they're probably regulators, but I have a mental block 
against anything electrical).  The 64 service manual says there's a regulator 
inside the gas gage that regulates for the gas and temp gages.  It looks to 
me like the regulator is actually outside the gas gage.  During the part 
swapping experiments, I had varying results - sometimes the gages still read too 
low, sometimes they didn't register at all and sometimes they both went all the 
way to the right, indicating a tank that's overfull and an engine that's 
boiling hot (not the case).  What it seems to come down to is that the circuit board 
was ok and the regulator/condensor was not.  Of course, there's still the 
possibility that the regulator really is in the gas gage and it's only working 
temporarily now, or I blundered into actually tightening something that was 
loose before.

Does this make any sense to anybody?  Hopefully, someone else will benefit 
from my good fortune.

George Clineman


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