Re: [Chrysler300] Gages

[Gary Barker <gbarker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George, You might have a car that somebody has already bypassed the 
internal regulator and put the external one on.  I know I have changed 
several cars over the years.    Gary Barker

News4ge@xxxxxxx wrote:

>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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