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No gauges, no charging, no cold weather. 200 1990

uid 27's pic
posted by  Art Benstein on  Wed Dec 15 01:48 CST 2010
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I think you're right Pauli.

To expand on that (cold contracts!) in the 240 context, here's a drawing to show how the alternator exciter voltage gets from the ignition switch to the alternator. There's a "flex fuse" on the instrument cluster held by two screws. A screw can be loose from a former attempt at servicing the odometer (even though it needn't be messed with) or the pins on the speedometer gauge may be incorrectly seated in their sockets. Sometimes the whole problem is in the contact force at the L-shaped plug for the speedometer.

In case we are wrong, and it is the ignition switch (red/black wire), I'd expect some wiggling of the key to affect it.






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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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