I think that is a voltage regulator, so it could be getting damaged by a
short somewhere in the instruments.

/Patrick

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rob Rubin wrote:

> In my '83 westy behind the instrument cluster is that three pronged black
> square thingy that I guess regulates the smoothness of the temp and Fuel
> gauge movement...ya with me? Well, it keeps blowing out, not working, taking
> a dump....at first I thought it may have been a short in the gauges or the
> circuit "ribbon" and replaced them all with the gauges and ribbon from
> another cluster. Everything was fine for about two weeks and....well I am
> writing to you all to see if ya got any Ideas or fixes cuz the thing took a
> dive on me again....
>
> Making me crazy!
>
> Rob
> '83 westy
>