What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[Rick W]

It was new in 1973. You know Rick bought those batteries on FB Marketplace. Got a good deal. 237 batteries for $7.00, plus a couple big coffee cans to store them in.

Hey hey hey! The batteries were new from Harbor Freight (about a year ago), but I also tried two or three other batteries and everything was doing the same thing.

And I would never buy coffee cans. I’m still working on ones that I saved 20 years ago.

You did use a new battery, right? It should have enough force to lift the needle, I did it with the speedo in a vise oriented like it would be in a vehicle I think... I can try again today on the non tach cluster I have...

No biggie, I’ll get it. I actually have a bench top DC voltage generator, but at this point, I don’t know if the original was correct, so I’m just gonna have to play with it a little bit.

 

[futon]

Restored the front end.