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Mail From: Mark Fridenstine <(email redacted)>

Please Help: I installed a new dash board and now my fuel /temp guages
don't even register. I looked for a off wire but the only ones close are
green with 2 grounds. Is there a fuse I don't know about? These guages
are important and I could use any and all responses. I have a fuel leak
at the bottom hookup on my fuel pump, and I've tried to tighten it down,
but it still leaks (drips) on the mufler. Anybody have this problem and
what gasket should I be using? Any help I would greatly appreciate....
Thank Mark

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Mail From: Theo Smit <(email redacted)>

Mark,
It sounds like something happened to the instrument voltage regulator (a little
can about 3/4" x 1/2" x 1.5" with four tab connectors, under the dash near the
gauges). It should be grounded to the chassis somehow; two white wires go to the
B terminal; two (green? with stripes? I'm going by memory) go to the power
inputs on the gauges. The ignition side should have 12 - 14 volts depending on
whether or not you are running the engine, and the gauge side should have 10
volts. If you have 12 volts on the gauge side, then the regulator isn't grounded
or the points are burned closed, and your gauges will read too high. If you have
0 volts on the gauge side and 12 volts on the ignition side, then the regulator
is stuck open or there are loose parts inside, and your gauges will read zero.

The other terminal of each gauge should read somewhere between 0 and 10 volts
depending on the temperature or fuel level, assuming that you have the 10 volts
going in on the power input of the gauge. Actually, if you see 10 or 0 volts,
that's probably a bad sign; check Mark Olson's web site Tech Tips for gauge
calibration.

Good Luck,

Theo Smit
(email redacted)
B382002705

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Fridenstine [SMTPemail redacted)]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:55 PM
> To: (email redacted)
> Subject: Tiger Guages/Fuel leak
>
> Please Help: I installed a new dash board and now my fuel /temp guages
> don't even register. I looked for a off wire but the only ones close are
> green with 2 grounds. [] <snip> Any help I would greatly appreciate....
> Thank Mark

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Mail From: Bill Martin <(email redacted)>



Mark if it turns out to be the guage regulator, Sunbeam Specialties
sells them. I had to replace mine this year as well. It should be bolted
to the dash stantion closest to the steering column. Also check that all
of your grounds are connected.
Bill

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Mail From: "JAN HARDE" <(email redacted)>


Mark,

One of the green wires hooks to the voltage stabilizer box, usually mounted
somewhere around the dash board support to the dash/firewall, without being
hooked to that, you will have no reading, it also has the tach hooked to it.
As to the fuel leak, that is all to common in that area, and normally there
is a rubber seal in between the fitting and the inside of the fitting hole
of the fuel line in to the pump, I suggest removing the line, and obtaining
a new rubber grommet, by matching it up at a NAPA store or a local PEP BOYS.
It is a very dangerous situation, and very frustrating one, to have that
particular leak there, I wish you luck, and with a little patience you will
solve both..

Warm regards,
Jan S-E Harde
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Fridenstine <(email redacted)>
To: <(email redacted)>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 2:55 PM
Subject: Tiger Guages/Fuel leak


> Please Help: I installed a new dash board and now my fuel /temp guages
> don't even register. I looked for a off wire but the only ones close are
> green with 2 grounds. Is there a fuse I don't know about? These guages
> are important and I could use any and all responses. I have a fuel leak
> at the bottom hookup on my fuel pump, and I've tried to tighten it down,
> but it still leaks (drips) on the mufler. Anybody have this problem and
> what gasket should I be using? Any help I would greatly appreciate....
> Thank Mark
>
>