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Old Mar 22, 2001 | 02:01 PM
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Someone enlighten me. Why did Ford put both idiot lights and pressure/generator lights in the dashes. I have both and have been asked several times and havent been able to provide an answer.
 
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Old Mar 22, 2001 | 10:15 PM
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 22-Mar-01 AT 11:25 PM (EST)[/font][p]seems I remember Ford used that in some of thier sales promotions. the Idea was to keep you out of trouble if a problem developed when you were not paying attention to the dashboard.suddenly it would be like Christmas.
 
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Old Mar 23, 2001 | 07:57 AM
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The reason most 65' & 66' models have both, is because guages were an option for ammeter & oil pressure if you had no optional guages you still had idiot lights reguadless.
 
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Old Mar 23, 2001 | 08:41 PM
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I found,after some research, that if you had the optional oil gauge, you also still had a oil light sender unit too. I added the original optional dash gauges to mine using exact original style harness and junction block, and they both work together just fine, different senders of course!
 
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Old Mar 24, 2001 | 04:19 PM
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