Thread: Amazing Discovery about Ford F1 Gauges.

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Originally Posted by NTFDAY

I thought you Ford guru's knew about those kind of things. Once Henry found something that worked, it stayed around in one form or another practically forever.
The 73 F-100 I sold about a year ago had a very butchered shift collar on it when I got it. I had an extra 66 Mustang column sitting around so I took the collar off the 66 and with a little massaging it adapted quite easily to the column on the 73. It was hard to tell it wasn't factory.

Well, I'm not the Ford Guru, just one of the Go Fast Ford Guys!!!!

I knew about the voltage regulator domafloppy on the instrument cluster, threw it away when I put all the Autometer gauges in my '71!!!!!! No voltage problems with these gauges!!!!

It seems that some Ford guys think that little 1 1/2" X 3/4" doomaflochet called a CV Regulator is a 12 to 6 volt voltage reducer. If you look inside you'll see a wire wound copper strip, just like the one in a flasher unit. All it's supposed to do is break the connection if too much current goes through the wire, like in a voltage spike.

Originally Posted by lakota

It seems that some Ford guys think that little 1 1/2" X 3/4" doomaflochet called a CV Regulator is a 12 to 6 volt voltage reducer. If you look inside you'll see a wire wound copper strip, just like the one in a flasher unit. All it's supposed to do is break the connection if too much current goes through the wire, like in a voltage spike.

Has anybody done a voltage check on in and out of these CVR's - Don't want to argue the point but the CVR's are supposed to reduce voltage according to Ford and most people who have had experience with them. Ford has also said that the gauges are 6 volt (except 56). I know with the CVR, my 6 volt gauges (54 Ford) work great with 12 volt conversion. Never tried it without the CVR and I don't intend to.