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the gauges on my rangie have stoped working no temp or fuel any ideas? i havent farked with anything they have died of natural causes. any ideas before i throw my hands in the air and take it to auto sparky. wireing diagram shows its wired throu a voltage stableiser and then to the sender i guess this stableiser could of died any idea where thats hidden?

Check out the plug behind the cluster

The later rangies have a single 10v voltage regulator feeding both of those gauges. It's located in the instrument binnacle.

A little playing with a multimeter should let you trace from the gauge back to it's location, but you'll have to remove the instruments from the vehicle first.

A new regulator from dick smith is only a few bucks, but there's the hassle of wiring it in.
The gauge is basically an ammeter, 10v supplied to one side and the other side earthed though the variable resistance of your fuel or temp guage.

oh joy how i love puling shit off the dash of this pos

If you drop the panel by the drivers knees, it'll be only four nuts holding the binnacle down.

Unless of course they changed everything in the decade between our vehicles.

i think your right but i remember its a kent to get to but i need to replace the speedo cable too so it has to come out at some point but im not looking foward to it. i hate working on inteior crap i wont touch it at work o just seem to break shit lol so i get the aprentice to do it

Cheers, I love the avatar.

yeah its good just a shame it does not happen more often

Both the fuel and temp gauges are supplied from a voltage regulator.
It's the metal can thing located in the instrument panel.

Mine displayed similar symptons a while ago, but it ended up being a fuse.
Have you got reversing lights?
(same fuse)

ile check the reverse lights for sure. i have had it happen before as well and it was one of the 3 fuses but not this time had a simlar problem years ago that stoped the diff lock light comeing on and the fuel pump an auto sparky fixed that and it was cheap as fuck but cant remember what the problem was

sorry to high jack, i have lost my dash lights, all my warning lights work, I just cant see how fast I am going at night

Any ideas, I drive an 86 rangie

The Dude wrote:sorry to high jack, i have lost my dash lights, all my warning lights work, I just cant see how fast I am going at night

Any ideas, I drive an 86 rangie

First check would be the fuse box. Then check be the dimmer dial by your left knee. If that loses a wire then it's lights out.

by 86 they probly had fuses. i cant beleave this things got 3 fuses

460cixy wrote:by 86 they probly had fuses. i cant beleave this things got 3 fuses

At least yours should have reasonable wire lengths.

The headlights in mine take power though the fuse box by the passengers leg. That's about 6m more wire than it needs, giving 2v less than the front lights should get.

oh nice lol mines just real old and brittle around the engine bay. i will make a whole new loom for that eventualy