HOW TO FIX THE VOLTAGE LIMITER
The kit from charger specialties. The needles are just a little different but if you install all 4 it is hard to tell. These gauges are not thermal like the originals. They re-act very quickly and have worked very well for me all this year. Over all I am very pleased.
The issue is the mounting and wiring of the ammeter. The wires are reversed, firstmost and the instructions do not warn you of that, if you pay attention to the red dot on the post then you are up one. You have to drill the holes for the ammeter studs larger through the housing cause they are just a tad wider. However it still causes a bit of an issue with alignment. The kit should include some non conductive liners to insert through the newly opened original holes. They do give you the drill diameter to use however (Good). I used a thick tumbler straw in the kitchen drawer to accomplish this, cut to length. There is a extrusion point on the bottom the ammeter needle that will contact the center post casting of the housing around the gauges. I remedied this with a couple more plastic washer shims to push it away from the housing giving the clearance needed. It actually set to deep in the housing without them. Lastly they should include a plug for the original fuel gauge instrument feed wire stud hole that is no longer used (Minor but a good idea to keep dust out of the cluster).
I mounted the new IVR in place of the original choke/capacitor that is no longer needed. Pulled the ignition feed from the cluster barrel and wired with a new connector to the IVR, Incase I wanted to go back to original.
They do work great and look good though, Cudos to Charger Specialties!
The kit from charger specialties. The needles are just a little different but if you install all 4 it is hard to tell. These gauges are not thermal like the originals. They re-act very quickly and have worked very well for me all this year. Over all I am very pleased.
The issue is the mounting and wiring of the ammeter. The wires are reversed, firstmost and the instructions do not warn you of that, if you pay attention to the red dot on the post then you are up one. You have to drill the holes for the ammeter studs larger through the housing cause they are just a tad wider. However it still causes a bit of an issue with alignment. The kit should include some non conductive liners to insert through the newly opened original holes. They do give you the drill diameter to use however (Good). I used a thick tumbler straw in the kitchen drawer to accomplish this, cut to length. There is a extrusion point on the bottom the ammeter needle that will contact the center post casting of the housing around the gauges. I remedied this with a couple more plastic washer shims to push it away from the housing giving the clearance needed. It actually set to deep in the housing without them. Lastly they should include a plug for the original fuel gauge instrument feed wire stud hole that is no longer used (Minor but a good idea to keep dust out of the cluster).
I mounted the new IVR in place of the original choke/capacitor that is no longer needed. Pulled the ignition feed from the cluster barrel and wired with a new connector to the IVR, Incase I wanted to go back to original.
They do work great and look good though, Cudos to Charger Specialties!
