I seem to have some little electrical demons in my '66 Valiant. Litsee...the turn indicator lights only work if the headlights are on, the fuel guage only works when it feels like it, as does the high-beam indicator light. Everything else seems to be okay. Any ideas?

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Faulty connections somewhere. Could be either at the firewall connector (%!$# spade terminals), the pins on the back of the cluster's PCB could be bent or broken (several were broken off in my case), or in the case of the gas gauge, a possible bad connection at the sending unit.

After killing gremlin after gremlin in the Dart, I feel like such an electrical whiz with these old Mopars now (okay not really)

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'74 Duster w/ HEI ignition, beat to snot suspension, A904, 8.25" 3.55 SG rear, still being tuned up and gets 17 MPG

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I had to replace the circut board on my car because the copper stripes began to peel off. My fuel and temp gages didn't work. when I got the "new" one off of a 75 Valiant I hit every connection with a Dremmel using a wire brush. Oddly both turn signal lights had been removed on mine. It was a much easier job than I thought it would be.

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Sounds like a bad ground on the panel. Also check that the nuts on the back of the gauges are tight. That can cause intermittant gauge readings.

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A fresh pencil eraser works great to clean the copper foil. Wire brush in dremel? I'd be afraid of damaging something with that.

No worries, the copper is pretty thick and the wire brush for a dremmel is very fine. Oh, Also I use my cordless dremmel for this it only turns 15,000rpm vs the regular dremmel 32,000rpm

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