Thread: Anyone familiar with 49 Lincoln dash stuff?

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Search "Automobile Instrument Repair, or "Automobile Gauge Repair" on your search engine.. I found a whole bunch, but I can't seem to get the URLs to attach correctly. If this post turns out wierd, that's why.

Basically, though, a resistor is inserted in the hot wire to drop the voltage from twelve to six volts at the gauge. For the fuel gauge, you can either get a new sending unit, most likely a universal type and replace the one in the tank, or send the one you have along with the gauges to be rebuilt to whatever specs you want. Whoever you get to do the work, ask them what they recommend.

There are several companies that will set older gauges up with new innards, but Classic seem to be one of the better - and their after market gauge sets are among the best. If you just decide the heck with it, and install new gauges, eGauges has many brands including the standard Classic. To mount a later fuel sending unit in your old Lincoln tank, there are adapters (Tanks, Inc) or you can make up one of your own.


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Setting gauges up with resistor is usually a band aid and seldom works as well as you would hope