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Just spent the morning pulling the cluster out again, and all the goes with it, and replaced the new voltage limiter with the 50 year old one I saved. With the gauges "fading in and out in unison" I figured it had to be that. Well.... my old Bird loves the "oldies" Everything works great. Would...

Well..... after pulling the cluster again, replacing the tic toc tac and all other gauges along with low voltage limiter all was going well. Start up was good, gauge were reading fine. Then.... after driving about 5 miles the temp, oil pressure and fuel gauges all in "unison" starting falling...

Well, checked the wiring and upon ignition key run position a very distinctive smell and puff of smoke. Fried the tac circuit board. Luckily I had the dash cluster out. Ordered a new circuit board and we will see if that works.

Just finished installing a Mopar Performance distributor upgrade with ECU and ballast resistor. Problem know is when the tach wire to coil (-) is hooked up car will not start. Remove that wire and car starts just fine but no tac. Any suggestions?

Just installed a one wire alternator and ran, per the instructions, a single wire from the alternator to the battery with a fusable link. Problem was no power to any circuits. I removed the one wire from the alternator that led to battery and I then re attached the fusable link wire from the...

I don't want to damage anything but wanting to know if crank pulley can come off without removing balancer on 383. I took the pulley bolts off, soaked what I could with PG Blaster and waiting until tomorrow to attempt removal.

I am converting to a serpentine belt system on my 70 roadrunner 383 with PS, AC. Along with the CVF Racing kit is a 1 wire alternator with internal regulator. How do I hook up the wire when I have a two wire system alternator now? Does the regulator on the firewall go away? Thanks

No kinks, Smooth fit from gear to dash. Brand new cable from Classic Industries

also have an issue with erratic speedo. Pulled dash cluster, replace speedo cable, removed and checked 32 teeth gear and all looks ok. Still bounces all over. Connected new cable to drill and speedo to check and all worked fine on the bench test. Any ideas? Thanks

1970 383 A727 and my speedo is eratic at all speeds. Pulled the dash cluster, replaced the speedo cable, removed the cable gear from trans and no sign of damage to 32 teeth gear. Any ideas? Thanks

Thank s. Do you know how many with that power train came with factory AC?

Recently purchased a 1970 Roadrunner Convertible 383, automatic, factory AC Tor Red. Looking for actual production numbers. Benn told 189 and also 122. Looking for correct numbers. Thanks