72 Satellite
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Re: 72 Satellite
Love the car and welcome!!
Is your car a column shift or console shift car? If its column shift then the reversing light issue may be the switch on the steering column. There is a little white plastic pin that actuates the switch and they have a habit of breaking. Could also be down to adjustment. I would be tempted to put a 12v feed to the wires from the switch and see if they light up. If they do, probably the switch.
Would you mind posting some more pics please and I would leave the wheels stock, but I am boring
Cheers Steve
Is your car a column shift or console shift car? If its column shift then the reversing light issue may be the switch on the steering column. There is a little white plastic pin that actuates the switch and they have a habit of breaking. Could also be down to adjustment. I would be tempted to put a 12v feed to the wires from the switch and see if they light up. If they do, probably the switch.
Would you mind posting some more pics please and I would leave the wheels stock, but I am boring
Cheers Steve
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Re: 72 Satellite
Welcome, good choice of car.
Are we there yet dad ..... 10 to the gallon but worth it.
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Re: 72 Satellite
Many thanks for the kind welcome, and for the tip about the reverse lights. I will give that a check.
here are a few more pics
here are a few more pics
Re: 72 Satellite
Just needs a bit of tweaking to make perfect.
Something like this.
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Something like this.
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Re: 72 Satellite
Inevitable maybe, but I gotta agree, those 2 examples are just plain wrong. That second one - he may as well fit a dually axle
From the slapper bars forward tho, it's perfect, As is yours Gene
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It's a lovely car, but those arches do need filling....
More like this perhaps ?
More like this perhaps ?
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Isn’t that the whole point of Roadrunners / Chargers / Challengers, to be a bad influence?
Big Gene Lean’s got Vectors in mind.
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Those last two fat-boy ones look like the instgram filter has gone wrong.
Leave it as is !!!
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That looks good. This one looks perfect.
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That 99 race car does it for me!!
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Challenger Sam Posey Tribute car
Re: 72 Satellite
nice car
you backup light switch is probably
1) the wrong one 3 wire or 2 which pins connected
2) in backwards
3 stuck little lever in box presses onto the back of it to make or break a circuit
4) disconnected
5) chewed wires
or someone had plans to make them into indicators and never finished the job.
speedo
you might not need a new one
a spray out of the drive with a keyboard compressed air can
a very gentle clean out of the same area with alcohol/ electrical contact spray
might work
but be aware that anything you stick up there can migrate through and onto the dial so don't go WD40 mad or oil it unless you can take off the dial/face, until anything that might come out has had a long time to do just that.
keep in mind also that oil or grease all over the hair spring that moves the pointer back to zero is not good either...that may be the issue you already have....hence the suggestion of electric contact cleaner..
on older cars the gauges were seperate units, even if the panel was all one.... i.e same gauge with many different faces/decals
for my car any gauge mechanism out of any aussie valiant from 1971 to 74 will bolt up onto the back of my cluster
gauges held to back of panel by screws and had separate wiring
later cars had circuit boards where it gets complicated. the mechanicals can still be swapped but the board will be crusty and horrible
worth checking what you have.....any old gauge mechanism from a similar vintage mopar might fit, just check how far back the pointer winds when released from its stop at 0 MPH. so you can put it back in the same place and lift it back over its stop to 0 mph on re assembly. use a clock makers hand puller if need be
Dave
you backup light switch is probably
1) the wrong one 3 wire or 2 which pins connected
2) in backwards
3 stuck little lever in box presses onto the back of it to make or break a circuit
4) disconnected
5) chewed wires
or someone had plans to make them into indicators and never finished the job.
speedo
you might not need a new one
a spray out of the drive with a keyboard compressed air can
a very gentle clean out of the same area with alcohol/ electrical contact spray
might work
but be aware that anything you stick up there can migrate through and onto the dial so don't go WD40 mad or oil it unless you can take off the dial/face, until anything that might come out has had a long time to do just that.
keep in mind also that oil or grease all over the hair spring that moves the pointer back to zero is not good either...that may be the issue you already have....hence the suggestion of electric contact cleaner..
on older cars the gauges were seperate units, even if the panel was all one.... i.e same gauge with many different faces/decals
for my car any gauge mechanism out of any aussie valiant from 1971 to 74 will bolt up onto the back of my cluster
gauges held to back of panel by screws and had separate wiring
later cars had circuit boards where it gets complicated. the mechanicals can still be swapped but the board will be crusty and horrible
worth checking what you have.....any old gauge mechanism from a similar vintage mopar might fit, just check how far back the pointer winds when released from its stop at 0 MPH. so you can put it back in the same place and lift it back over its stop to 0 mph on re assembly. use a clock makers hand puller if need be
Dave
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The car’s all sorted, rebuilt 727, restored tank, rebuilt carb among many other things. And new Baja alloys and BFGs.
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