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Old Feb 26, 2004 | 06:45 PM
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Angry gauges gone haywire

Ok put in new starter and starter relay. After doing this my gauges have gone haywire. They start out normal and come up to where they are supposed to, but then if I turn on the heater, lights, turn signal, stereo, brake lights they go hard right and stay there. If I turn off everything they come back down to normal. Fusible link blown possibly? Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Old Feb 26, 2004 | 08:46 PM
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replace intrument cluster volateg regulator, its located on the backside of the instrument cluster
 
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Old Feb 26, 2004 | 09:17 PM
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i replaced it with one from a junkyard to no avail, can you buy new ones at a dealer?
 
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Old Mar 2, 2004 | 12:05 PM
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you can get them from napa for 30 dollars but i wouldnt i got a new cluster voltage regulator from napa and is was worse then my old one! i went to the junk yard and got a hand ful of the regulators out of broncos vans and trucks went homw started my truck and started putting them in untill i got accurate readings which i fianlly ended up finding one that did ive been told that ford has a problem with thtese things and that there prone to messing up on you mine hasnt yet and hopefully it dosent another thing that helped was the wiring circut board back there i had about 3 of them that wwhere wired for the factory tachs because i had founf a bronco with a tach and got it and then a few other broncos witht he tachs as well but the tachs where already taken but i got the wiring circut boards for them since i had a problem with one of them before anyway i put int he best looking one with the least amount of wear ont he contacts with new keepers for the guages and now my guages read even more accurate because im getting a good contact my old guage keepers where all dirty and coroded so you may give that a try
 
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