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Does anyone know where to purchase a 140mph instrument cluster for an 89 Mustang GT online other than eBay. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
 

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Your best bet is Ebay, Corral, Craiglist. To my knowledge no one sells them other than expensive DIgital Dashes. You can also take your existing speedo to a shop and have it recalibrated and then buy the 140mph overlay.
 

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It's the death of the Mustang. The alternator will not work without the printed circuit on the back of the instrument cluster. You can get a new printed circuit for virtually every car ever made except a Mustang.

Kurt
 

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revhead347 said:
It's the death of the Mustang. The alternator will not work without the printed circuit on the back of the instrument cluster. You can get a new printed circuit for virtually every car ever made except a Mustang.

Kurt
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That really isn't a big problem, you just need to add a 500 ohm resistor in series with the alternator green/red wire.. See the diagram below...



Notice the green/red wire connects to a switched power source. The circuit contains a 500 ohm resistor in series between the switched power and the alternator. Connecting it to switched power keeps the regulator from drawing current when the engine is not running. The resistor limits the current flowing through the wire so that a fuse isn't needed if the wire shorts to ground.
 
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jrichker said:
That really isn't a big problem, you just need to add a 500 ohm resistor in series with the alternator green/red wire.. See the diagram below...



Notice the green/red wire connects to a switched power source. The circuit contains a 500 ohm resistor in series between the switched power and the alternator. Connecting it to switched power keeps the regulator from drawing current when the engine is not running. The resistor limits the current flowing through the wire so that a fuse isn't needed if the wire shorts to ground.
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Always great advice.
 

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I know, I just like the light to work.

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