Wires Wires Wires .. All those unsightly wires hanging under the dash...gone. Finished the dash wiring, mostly. I need to do some work on the gauges but for the most part that rat nest is under control. Hanging under the dash IS NOT a sport for those with bad backs! I have to pillow and pad the floor so I can just lay under the dash and work, sure seemed easier when I was a younger man!
I have been keeping and working around the previous owners wiring mess so not to make MORE problems I don't need as the P.O. said that it did run and operate properly at one time. So I worked around his mess keeping it till all the other issues were gone. So that's where we're at, UN doing all those wires and my workarounds. I have to go in again though to replace fried bulbs in the gauges, wire in blinker indicators and a horn. Re wiring this mess I found many issues and fixed many. Now I have a working gas gauge, once it was wired to the resistor which was previously wired to ALL the gauges except the gas. Now the volts read properly but the water temp is still wonky. Before when I had a 190 degree thermostat in the car the gauge read 140 at full heat. Thinking it was a 140 thermostat I replaced it with a 180 degree stat. That brought the gauge to 120! So thought must be because it was wired to the resistor, so I removed it. No change just gets there faster. The resister makes the ford gauges move slower not to slam to position.
So just not sure where to go now with getting the temp to properly show its setting. I have a mechanical gauge but won't go into the manifold because of no lip to keep the sensor from falling in. Would rather make the one in the cluster work proper anyway. I am pretty sure the temp is right where it needs to be as there are no heating issues with the car. Fans all come on good, all is well there, just reads wrong.
Anybody with any ideas on that please say so b'cuz am not sure where to go with that issue atm.
Thanks Mike
I have been keeping and working around the previous owners wiring mess so not to make MORE problems I don't need as the P.O. said that it did run and operate properly at one time. So I worked around his mess keeping it till all the other issues were gone. So that's where we're at, UN doing all those wires and my workarounds. I have to go in again though to replace fried bulbs in the gauges, wire in blinker indicators and a horn. Re wiring this mess I found many issues and fixed many. Now I have a working gas gauge, once it was wired to the resistor which was previously wired to ALL the gauges except the gas. Now the volts read properly but the water temp is still wonky. Before when I had a 190 degree thermostat in the car the gauge read 140 at full heat. Thinking it was a 140 thermostat I replaced it with a 180 degree stat. That brought the gauge to 120! So thought must be because it was wired to the resistor, so I removed it. No change just gets there faster. The resister makes the ford gauges move slower not to slam to position.
So just not sure where to go now with getting the temp to properly show its setting. I have a mechanical gauge but won't go into the manifold because of no lip to keep the sensor from falling in. Would rather make the one in the cluster work proper anyway. I am pretty sure the temp is right where it needs to be as there are no heating issues with the car. Fans all come on good, all is well there, just reads wrong.
Anybody with any ideas on that please say so b'cuz am not sure where to go with that issue atm.
Thanks Mike