Dash problem, coolant gauge, fuel, dim light when lights off?

[Balley]

Right well got the nova nearly done today..

But noticed a problem, when you put the lights of the coolant guage goes off the scale ?
The rev counter is reading all over the place (its a Diesel btw)
Fuel gauge is the same.

and when the lights are off the is one dash light very lightly lit, the temp gauge is also lower but still a lot higher than it should be.

Any one had this problem before?

[Balley]

please help :(

[Southie]

Have you got another set of clocks you could try? Are the ones youve got been working okay beforehand?

Maybe a dodgy earth somewhere by the sounds of it or the clocks have a broken track on the back giving you a false reading.

[Balley]

I thought that about the the tracks but they look ok. will petrol clocks plug in minus the rev counter?

[Lewis.]

you checked the earth yet?

[Spudly]

Id say your alternator is to fault, general rule of thumb is if your rev counter goes awry (reads off the alternator on a weasel) then thats going pete tong!

[Balley]

yeah I thought that about the rev counter but not the other gauges

[Spudly]

Id be replacing the alt for now and see what that does, it might be overcharging and hence all your other dials and such going haywire:tard:

[Balley]

yeah I will test it :)

[Nobby]

have you checked for a bad earth takes 2 secs and costs nothing .... jump lead from battery neg to block

[Balley]

I will earth the dash and check the body and engine earth

[Balley]

Fixed :)

One of the earth tracks in the clocks were knackered, so I repaired using a earth strap from the rev counter to the fuel gauge :)

Very happy now!! thanks all

[Balley]

All rep'd

Damm


You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Spudly again.

[Balley]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Nobby again.




Damm