Good replacement for Amp Meter
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Good replacement for Amp Meter
Hi all,
I upgraded my 69 E100 alternator to a "one-wire" a while ago and haven't done anything about the amp meter yet. I want to put in a volt meter but I'd love to have it look like my original instrument cluster. I've seen a couple YT videos so I could do that.The face looks pretty different and I could live with that if I have to. But has anyone else done it on a Gen 2 and made it look ok? Are there other Fords that have a volt meter that looks similar to our instrument panel that I could grab from a junk yard?
Scott
I upgraded my 69 E100 alternator to a "one-wire" a while ago and haven't done anything about the amp meter yet. I want to put in a volt meter but I'd love to have it look like my original instrument cluster. I've seen a couple YT videos so I could do that.The face looks pretty different and I could live with that if I have to. But has anyone else done it on a Gen 2 and made it look ok? Are there other Fords that have a volt meter that looks similar to our instrument panel that I could grab from a junk yard?
Scott
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I'd get a basic stand alone amp gauge and wire it up
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You can probably make your original gauge work by rewiring it to the new alternator
It was probably a shunt type gauge in the truck from the factory
If you Google "how to wire the factory amp gauge to a 1 wire alternator on a 69 Ford van", it comes up with the wiring that should work
Read through that about the 10 gauge wires, and them being black with yellow and black with red
That should work even though the main answer was AI generated
But
You can probably make your original gauge work by rewiring it to the new alternator
It was probably a shunt type gauge in the truck from the factory
If you Google "how to wire the factory amp gauge to a 1 wire alternator on a 69 Ford van", it comes up with the wiring that should work
Read through that about the 10 gauge wires, and them being black with yellow and black with red
That should work even though the main answer was AI generated
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