Caught a ride into work today - gauge voltage regulator died.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
07/01/2019 at 10:43 • Filed to: None

The Galaxie’s temp and fuel gauges use a voltage regulator/reducer that drops 12V to 5.7V. When they fail, they send 12V straight through, which makes the gauges peg out and is almost certainly hard on them. Which is what happened on the way to work Friday. Replacement from autoparts store Saturday was bad-in-box (this one was only a year and a half old), new one should be here today.

“But Ramblin’”, you’d say. “Why aren’t you driving the Rover or the Benz to work?” Well, the Benz needs a vacuum pump, inspection, and tag renewal, and I’d need to pump up the carb on the Rover, so...

DISCUSSION (12)

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/01/2019 at 11:06

We’re chasing an intermittent electric fault on the 88, think it’s the ignition switch. Truck w ill randomly die and start right back up.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/01/2019 at 11:08

I have a dead spot in the ignition switch on my 88; does that, but only when provoked.

More that I need to rebuild the carb again for its current running being sub-par - got crap in the jets, seemingly.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/01/2019 at 11:12

I hope you have a suitable sacrifice to the dark c arb Gods.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/01/2019 at 11:18

Do they make 12v gauges ?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem
07/01/2019 at 12:05

Like, one to one replacements? Not that I’m aware of. The dash looks like this and the gauges turn “backwards”:

Kinja'd!!!

There are people who make full dash replacements, but “feh” to that.

As many of these as are garage queens, I don’t think people act like silicon failures after two hot summers outside are a problem - which they should, because it’s kind of unacceptable.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
07/01/2019 at 12:07

Joke’ s on you, it got swapped to a Rochester B before I even got it. The only incantation involved is a ‘60s Chevy-appropriate imitated spitting of tobacco.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/01/2019 at 12:15

Sounds like you need to order 2 replacements

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem
07/01/2019 at 13:19

Or possibly order a DC voltage reducer off Amazon for about a third what these cost, rig it with wires so it’s even easier to reach if failed , and keep it on hand for next time instead of a “factory style” replacement, because eff the po.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/01/2019 at 13:21

That almost sounds so reasonable.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
01/14/2020 at 11:47

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/quick-brz-head-unit-update-1840977903

Check out the photo, and the armature holding up the DC-3. Beauty, says I. Forget the BRZ...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
01/14/2020 at 12:28

The frame has an elegance and understated simplicity to it. Matches the DC-3.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
01/14/2020 at 14:12

I like how it captures the takeoff path while it distributes the cantilevered load. As you said: elegant.