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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 5:13 pm
by Ivor
Welcome aboard Alan!
There are some electronic wizards on the board, that I'm sure will be able to help, but I would mind betting that your dash works on five volts and your voltage controller needs a bit of sorting out.
I had a good clean up behind the dash, found a loose connection on the voltage whatsit and everything came back on song.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 5:14 pm
by bananaskin
Welcome!
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 5:15 pm
by Kev
Welcome aboard, love your plays!!
Does your car have the bulkhead connector? These always give problems such as yours. Also the voltage reg on the pcb behind the dash can give problems, it drops the voltage to the instruments to 5v or so. I'm sure someone with more experience will be along soon............
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 5:34 pm
by Doug
Kev wrote:Welcome aboard, love your plays!!
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Gordon Bennet Kev, its not thee Alan Bennet
, Hi Alan, my m8 had a similar prob too, traced it back to the reg, as Ivor n Kev says or i call it a volt dropper, same jobby i think , oh n welcome , I was quite sane till I joined these lot
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 5:50 pm
by latil
Darn C bodies
Hello,welcome. Have a check around the dashboard/cluster earth points too. They can be tentative at best.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 6:11 pm
by latil
Not many C body fans,they all laugh at me,I'm sure.
£250?
life just ain't fair sometimes.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 6:38 pm
by charger01
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 7:03 pm
by Dave-R
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 07 3:56 pm
by Anonymous
Hey Alan,
welcome to the board.
Well,
you could have little, easy issues, or tricky, headachy issues.
If you are not getting instrumentation readings, I would go with what Latil said - try looking at your earths. Everything in your cluster will be eartheed through a 'common' (one) earth, rather than take an earth from every component. So what you need to do, is release the clusers from the binnacle and ly it down so you can look in on the back. Turn your ignition on, get yer multi meter out (set on D.C. volts) and make sure you have voltage atr all `your instruments and warning lights. This way, you should have your oil pressure light on too. If the sender is working it will go out inf the engine is started and the oil pressure is good, and you dont want that. If you have a good, strong steady voltage, chek the earthing arrangements. Good connections, clean, unbroken. So for that you might want to do some continuity tests to a known 'good' earth.
Try that and see how you get on. You may also want to look at connections at your fuel sender, and oil pressure sender.
Your problems seem all too localised for it to be a coincidence. I think your dash harness and its earth's need a little investigation.
Good luck Mr. Bond
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 07 1:04 pm
by AllKiller
Welcome Mate, whats it look like, can you post some pics up
Normally plenty of help on here.....and some hinderance
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And Probably the fastest replies to a problem than any site out there.
