Mopar Muscle Association UK

Whilst the dash is out it’s the best time to do a wiper motor mod. Mopar wiper motors are big old chunks and certainly in the wrong place on a small block A body. A Vauxhall Corsa unit is tiny in comparison, is pretty easily adapted and will fit under the dash. So I’m getting on with that at the mom...

I’m amazed it’s never been modified and that it’s not rotten as a pear, great find!

Ready to go back in, usual repro part niggles but it looks pretty good overall.

The paint on the Yowell car was altered almost by the week as it was rapidly modified, at one point it had a night and day side…

One of my favourite photos, given the fantastic paint on all the vehicles it’s such a shame it’s not in colour.

I assume you brought it in, be amazed it that was sitting over here that intact.

Modified my shiny new Dash trim to take the gauge panel I made last year in the heater control area. This will place the oil pressure and mechanical temp gauge in an area where I can easily see them. Under the dash might look cool but it’s hopeless if you are actually going to use them while driving...

Indeed, it’s considerably lighter now, probably half the weight it was. I have some self adhesive chrome tape I’ll apply to the inside so it still acts as a reflector for the panel lights.

With weight on the rear wheels, bottom the yoke and pull out 3/4” and then measure between the yokes is the usual way to arrive at the correct prop length. I assume you are thinking your prop is the wrong length?

Couldn’t help noticing just how heavy the pot metal instrument housing is, I’ll be having a look at that….

Final step is fitting a Voltmeter decal to complete the look. Can all be reinstalled now and wired to suit. I need to check but I think all that needs doing is to move the large red and black wires for the Ammeter onto one terminal of the voltmeter and earth the other side, assuming that’s the case ...

Next comes the tricky job of snipping off the original needle and gluing it to the new needle as it’s a different shape and needs to be moved up a bit to match.

Next step is to glue the Bosch face under the mopar face so that you can use the tiny screws to fit it all together.

First job is gut it, the face comes off with 2 tiny screws. The face of the factory Ammeter is held on by 2 tiny rivets, I cut through them from behind so as not to damage the face.

Given we all tend to bypass the factory Amp gauge due to the lousy design and potential fire risk, I wanted to do a constuctive mod. Converting the Amp gauge to a voltmeter is pretty straightforward though fiddly job. I’m not taking credit for this, a mooch around the net showed it’s been done many ...