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Printed Circuit Board on Gauges #98034
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I have a 1966 Fury III. The gauges are no longer working and I believe it is because the printed circuit board on the backs of the gauges are toast. Does anyone know if anyone remakes or has and quick fixes for this problem? If anyone knows of any 65 or 66 fury parts cars I am also interested in that. Thanks

Re: Printed Circuit Board on Gauges [Re: jrn88] #98035
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Have you checked to see if the voltage limiter for the gauges is working?

Re: Printed Circuit Board on Gauges [Re: jrn88] #98036
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No ones repopping them that I know of. You have a couple options though.
1. Try the parts for sale/parts wanted ads here(best bet) or the salvage yard(good bet also).
2. Customize your intrument panel with newer style gauges and scrap the old circuitry. This is very hard to do but looks awesome when its done.

Re: Printed Circuit Board on Gauges [Re: Moonraker] #98037
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The August '08 issue of Mopar Muscle has an article on this. The pins in the circuit boards get corroded and/or come loose, causing all kinds of problems. However, they can be re-soldered without too much effort. You might want to look into this.

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Re: Printed Circuit Board on Gauges [Re: jrn88] #98038
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You can also send your cluster to Redline (or one of the other instrument restorers) and they can make everything work and look good

Re: Printed Circuit Board on Gauges [Re: TrueTripleX] #98039
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Assuming that the board for a 66 C is somewhat similar to a 68-70 B:

1) Take a dremel with a small wire brush and clean all the connections where the wiring harness hooks up, and where the gauges bolt in, and where the voltage regulator plugs in.

2) spray it down with TV Tuner Cleaner (Radio Shack) and clean it real good (so that you aren't getting a short from the green stripe on the board getting a connection somehow where it ain't green.)

3) Use a multi-meter to test continuity from all the pins where the wiring harness hooks up to the spots where the gauges go. You don't have to be a geek to just look at the green strips (which are conducting the electricity) and figure out that power coming into pin "A" should end up at the end of some certain green stripe.

Also - once you've proved good continuity from the pins, also check to make sure their is NOT continuity where there shouldn't be. EX: the pin that goes to the + for the gas gauge should not show continuity on any of the other green strips.

If you do all that, you can pretty much be sure the board is OK. If, for some reason, you find a "break" in continuity, you could even solder a small wire across the bad spot on the green stripes to fix it.

Even if you bought a used replacement from the board, you'd still want to do the process above on it to make sure its good.

Re: Printed Circuit Board on Gauges [Re: Gusteve] #98040
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If all the gauges are not working (oil, temp and fuel) I'd say that the voltage limiter stuck closed and sent 12 volts to them. This would result in burning up the windings inside the gauges.
Take the cluster out and remove a gauge that isn't working. Look inside (between the pointer and dial face) and see if the windings are OK or burnt up. If they are OK, it's got to be the PC board.

Re: Printed Circuit Board on Gauges [Re: ddartdude] #98041
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Keep your eyes open on ebay I got an original one in the box for my 64 Polara for 79 bucks. They are out there.







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