83 GSL -- Fuel, Temp, and Oil Pressure Gauges Not Working
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83 GSL -- Fuel, Temp, and Oil Pressure Gauges Not Working
Hello all,
I haven't started my seven in several years, and I got her to start after the usual stuff (read the FAQ etc). Anyway, aside from my fuel pump crapping out on me, everything was fine, except that my left guage -- the one with the fuel, oil pressure, and temp guages -- is completely unresponsive. My battery indicator, and tach work. Not sure about the speedo, cause she has flat tires and is up on stands atm. I checked the connections to the sensors in the engine bay, and they are all hooked up, and I tried to see if anything behind the combination meter (as the FSM calls it) was disconnected, but as far as I can tell its all good. Oh, and I checked all my fuses, especially the meter fuse, which I switch with a known good fuse to no avail.
It seems unlikely that those three senders would all crap out at once, and when I looked at the wiring diagram, they didn't appear to be on a separate circuit from the other meters, so I'm guessing its the guage itself. I'm not excited to pull it out though, so I was hoping someone else had experienced this before, or had any ideas.
Thanks,
Sonny
I haven't started my seven in several years, and I got her to start after the usual stuff (read the FAQ etc). Anyway, aside from my fuel pump crapping out on me, everything was fine, except that my left guage -- the one with the fuel, oil pressure, and temp guages -- is completely unresponsive. My battery indicator, and tach work. Not sure about the speedo, cause she has flat tires and is up on stands atm. I checked the connections to the sensors in the engine bay, and they are all hooked up, and I tried to see if anything behind the combination meter (as the FSM calls it) was disconnected, but as far as I can tell its all good. Oh, and I checked all my fuses, especially the meter fuse, which I switch with a known good fuse to no avail.
It seems unlikely that those three senders would all crap out at once, and when I looked at the wiring diagram, they didn't appear to be on a separate circuit from the other meters, so I'm guessing its the guage itself. I'm not excited to pull it out though, so I was hoping someone else had experienced this before, or had any ideas.
Thanks,
Sonny
same issue
Hello all,
I haven't started my seven in several years, and I got her to start after the usual stuff (read the FAQ etc). Anyway, aside from my fuel pump crapping out on me, everything was fine, except that my left guage -- the one with the fuel, oil pressure, and temp guages -- is completely unresponsive. My battery indicator, and tach work. Not sure about the speedo, cause she has flat tires and is up on stands atm. I checked the connections to the sensors in the engine bay, and they are all hooked up, and I tried to see if anything behind the combination meter (as the FSM calls it) was disconnected, but as far as I can tell its all good. Oh, and I checked all my fuses, especially the meter fuse, which I switch with a known good fuse to no avail.
It seems unlikely that those three senders would all crap out at once, and when I looked at the wiring diagram, they didn't appear to be on a separate circuit from the other meters, so I'm guessing its the guage itself. I'm not excited to pull it out though, so I was hoping someone else had experienced this before, or had any ideas.
Thanks,
Sonny
I haven't started my seven in several years, and I got her to start after the usual stuff (read the FAQ etc). Anyway, aside from my fuel pump crapping out on me, everything was fine, except that my left guage -- the one with the fuel, oil pressure, and temp guages -- is completely unresponsive. My battery indicator, and tach work. Not sure about the speedo, cause she has flat tires and is up on stands atm. I checked the connections to the sensors in the engine bay, and they are all hooked up, and I tried to see if anything behind the combination meter (as the FSM calls it) was disconnected, but as far as I can tell its all good. Oh, and I checked all my fuses, especially the meter fuse, which I switch with a known good fuse to no avail.
It seems unlikely that those three senders would all crap out at once, and when I looked at the wiring diagram, they didn't appear to be on a separate circuit from the other meters, so I'm guessing its the guage itself. I'm not excited to pull it out though, so I was hoping someone else had experienced this before, or had any ideas.
Thanks,
Sonny
I am having the same issue, same car, as you. 83 gsl, sat for years, replaced fuel pump, pulled the cluster, checked all wiring, Cant find any reason for the gauges on the left to not work. I am going to try again next weekend to figure this out. Wondering if a diode went bad in the cluster. I will post any positive results.
83 cluster update
I got a replacement cluster, tried installing then starting the car. With the old cluster, the red warning lights and the voltmeter did work. New cluster in, oil pressure gauge worked for ten seconds, then no lights at all, no gauges, car wont stay running. Going to try to make a good cluster from both. Post those results later.
gauge issue solved
Ok, so everyone said to check the fuses, but no one was specific to check the fuse box itself. I found this out by wiggling the meter fuse. The gauges worked for a second. I pulled the fuse box out into the sun for a better look, and saw that the brass clips that hold the meter fuse were cracked, making for a bad connection. The fuse was good. I put a female connector into the box and now i have working gauges. Hope this helps someone.
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