thanks Jon, but I did mention in my original post that the voltage stablizer
(Bentley) was within spec.

Shawn

On 7/23/06, Jon Kanas <kanas@qadas.com> wrote:
>
>  Robert,
>
> Something came to mind regarding your temperature problem that I don't
> think anyone's mentioned....  the voltage regulator for the gauges.  There
> is a small, square IC on the back of the instrument cluster which is
> supposed to take 12V to 10V for the dash instruments.  I had two of these
> things fail in my 1983, one time both the fuel gauge and temperature gauge
> read high, the other failure the received 0 voltage and didn't read at all.
> I suggest checking the voltage as the gauges, and verify that you're seeing
> 10V and not 12V before you get on an adventure with the cooling system.
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