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May 2, 2009, 6:04 pm

Mark J

Question: 1966 barracuda brown wire to instrument panel board at 12 vo

1966 barracuda i have 12 volts dc to the instrument panel they claim it should be 5 volts. no voltage regulator on dash panel boards the instruments are either pegged or nothing. i also replaced the alternator and voltage regulator under hood resently if that tells you anything that can help me.

June 8, 2009, 1:07 pm

James S

The instrument voltage regulator is inside the gas gauge. It can be replaced with an electronic regulator on a chip, if it has gone bad. If your gauges will still move, they are probably all right, but don't put a full twelve volts on them!

See this page for instrument panel wiring and the next page for alternator and battery wiring.
http://www.jamesmskipper.us/Barracuda/InstrumentPanel.html
http://www.jamesmskipper.us/Barracuda/AlternatorWiring.html
Date: 6/8/09

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