Hey guys yesterday on the way home I started to smell something like a burnt fuse or wire or something. Well later that night I went out and when I turned on my lights I checked my gauges and my oil guage was pegged to high. Nothing was running any diffrent or anything like that. I would assume my gauge just went bad. My question is putting an oil gauge in my best option?

 

My guess is, your resistor burned up. It's 20 ohms, so order one of those before you tear your dash apart. That's if you want it back to original operating condition.

OR...

You're halfway there to the moving oil pressure gauge mod! Congratulations, you don't have to take the dash apart. Start with paragraph 5 here:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l#post12157997

 

So would I need to pull my gauge cluster out or can I just put in the sender unit?

 

If you resistor is burned out, it will need to be replaced on the back of the cluster.. Placed anywhere else will still leave the open circuit on the back of the cluster, as in burned out resistor=open circuit..

 

If you want to do the mod, you don't need to pull the dash. (In your case. Others will need to do the dash)

 

Oh man... I'd pull the dash anyway (not the entire dash, just the cluster) and see what's up. Couldn't ever be comfortable knowing there may be a burnt component just waiting to act up again. Yeah once a resistor is burnt it's done, but still... I'd take a look and fix it. Don't make any sense that if a resistor burnt up (went open) that the gauge works at ALL. Something is now shorted across it.

Just my opinion, I wouldn't do an oil gauge mod that relies on a resistor that bypassed itself with a failure. Pull it out, clean up the burn marks, solder in a jumper. Then do the rest of the mod.