Temp & fuel gauges - what am I overlooking?

Super-Cuda said
Redfish, another thing I noticed after having numerous clusters apart and refurbishing gauges ( Rallye Gauges only) is that the oil pressure gauge and the temp gauge internals and the windings look identical.

Are they the same gauge with a different face?

RedFish said
Yes and no. Those 2 gauges are upside tight or upside down in the rally panel. If this panel had a oil gaige it would be identical to the temp gauge less the screen.
This case, what have we not considered besides the 12 volt supply? Earlier models had more than 1 "hot in run" supply to the inst' panel. 1 to limiter, another to warning lamps, etc... 1972 or 73, whenever the larger white fuse box appeared, everything that needed 12 volts got it from the same wire and its likely fused. Is any of this relative to the issue? I don't know.

I was asked a question. I answered knowing I have holes in my memory. So now I feel i should correct my earlier statements even though a rally panel is not the topic here. "Are oil and temp gauges the same?" The simple answer is no but... they can interchange and they did. Through some time late 1967 every gauge was completely different. I have crude sketches of all 3 original configurations. Then somebody figured out that if the beam in the temp gauge was shifted far enough and the needle stops were tweaked far enough, it can report oil pressure. Have a close look at any 68 up rally oil gauge and this is what you'll find. Now we can forget again. LOL