No Alternator Gauge on Wiring Diagram

[mydart270]

just determined that the alternator gauge in my cluster panel is not shown in the electrical section of the Instrument Panel Wiring - Dart in my Red and White '68 Service Manual. This is crazy or am I getting real blind?

Section 8-103, Fig. 5 shows everything I need to know about the wiring under the dash and in the cluster panel (Speedometer panel). However I can't find the ALTERNATOR INDICATOR as referenced on page 8-25, Fig. 3.

Is this an oversight (possible error) by Chrysler? My car is a 1968 Dodge Dart 2 DR H/T SL-6. The gauge in the cluster is the standard center biased ammeter and shows C and D markings. It definitely is wired between BAT and IGN switch as it fluctuates based on load. However it is not on the wring diagram in Fig. 5

What am I missing????

 

[Treblig]

I know you have a 68 but my 69 Service Manual it doesn't really show a gauge like usual:
This is for a Valiant:

This is what it shows for my Barracuda:

treblig

 

[krazykuda]

just determined that the alternator gauge in my cluster panel is not shown in the electrical section of the Instrument Panel Wiring - Dart in my Red and White '68 Service Manual. This is crazy or am I getting real blind?

Section 8-103, Fig. 5 shows everything I need to know about the wiring under the dash and in the cluster panel (Speedometer panel). However I can't find the ALTERNATOR INDICATOR as referenced on page 8-25, Fig. 3.

Is this an oversight (possible error) by Chrysler? My car is a 1968 Dodge Dart 2 DR H/T SL-6. The gauge in the cluster is the standard center biased ammeter and shows C and D markings. It definitely is wired between BAT and IGN switch as it fluctuates based on load. However it is not on the wring diagram in Fig. 5

What am I missing????

The main feed for the alternator usually comes from the main "batt" terminal on the back of the alternator - the one with the round terminal and nut to hold it on...

Follow that wire (usually black and fatter than the rest) into the bulkhead, then the other side of that bulkhead wire will then go to a multi-splice and then one of them branches off to the alternator in on the gauge...
Then follow the wiring diagram for the other side (which if I remember correctly goes to the fuse box - but don't hold me to that)...

 

[67Dart273]

^^KK^^ is right, it's there it just might not "jump out" LOL

This is out of the 68 Plymouth manual, downloaded for free from MyMopar.com. Should be same diagram, might not be the same page no

 

[mydart270]

^^KK^^ is right, it's there it just might not "jump out" LOL

This is out of the 68 Plymouth manual, downloaded for free from MyMopar.com. Should be same diagram, might not be the same page no

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thank you for the info. Yes I can trace the wires as kk had said. After review of my service manual I still cannot find it in the electrical schematics. Could these wiring diagrams come from 1967 or earlier? Did the early Darts have an ammeter in the dash??

thx for all the comments..

 

[krazykuda]

thank you for the info. Yes I can trace the wires as kk had said. After review of my service manual I still cannot find it in the electrical schematics. Could these wiring diagrams come from 1967 or earlier? Did the early Darts have an ammeter in the dash??

thx for all the comments..

Try looking a few more pages back in the book for your car to see if there was a ralley gauge option that may have an ammeter diagram to follow.. It should be the next couple of pages after the standard dash diagrams in the back of chapter 8 of the service manual. Then follow those diagrams....

If you can't find it in your Dodge book, then try looking in a Plymouth book under the comparable a-body (the 'sister' car)...

 

[mydart270]

Try looking a few more pages back in the book for your car to see if there was a ralley gauge option that may have an ammeter diagram to follow.. It should be the next couple of pages after the standard dash diagrams in the back of chapter 8 of the service manual. Then follow those diagrams....

If you can't find it in your Dodge book, then try looking in a Plymouth book under the comparable a-body (the 'sister' car)...

Guess what...ammeter is shown in the instrument panel wiring for a Charger....go figure!!!!!

thx for the info....love Chrysler and my 1968 Dodge Dart 2 DR H/T SL-6

 

[krazykuda]

Ok, I was wrong, the main battery wire is red and goes into the ammeter first, then comes out black and then goes into the multi splice...

It goes to the splice after the ammeter in the circuit, not before....

 

[krazykuda]

Guess what...ammeter is shown in the instrument panel wiring for a Charger....go figure!!!!!

thx for the info....love Chrysler and my 1968 Dodge Dart 2 DR H/T SL-6

I looked at the 68 Plymouth manual for the valiant dash wiring and traced it...