my 1972 fury wagon from the field to daily driver

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Well I pulled the gauge cluster today. Pretty crusty nothing worked in it at all.

I dove right into taking it apart

are these condenser for the gauge cluster?

I hate rust so much

 

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Also dove into the heater/Ac wiring. This is gonna be fun I hate crappy reworked wiring. All this just to find out the blower motor is fired

 

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Also dove into the heater/Ac wiring. This is gonna be fun I hate crappy reworked wiring. All this just to find out the blower motor is fired View attachment 624352

Take your time. I’m not sure what the condenser is for. The can above it is the voltage regulator for the gauges. I would recommend replacing it with a solid state regulator. I have replaced one in my 69 Fury.
I bought it from a gent on fleabay.

 

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I might have an entire dash harness that will work for you if interested. I'll check this weekend.

 

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I might have an entire dash harness that will work for you if interested. I'll check this weekend.

yeah i may be interested in it!

 

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everyone took of early at work today so started patching one the big wholes in floor pan!

 

[Stern70]

Good luck on the project, that looks like a solid car unlike a lot of the cars around here. Keep us posted!

 

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Have I mentioned yet how much I hate electrical gremlins. spend 3 days trying to find the dome light delay relay. Any way solder on all new bulb sockets for the gauge cluster today

last weekend I also put a new blower motor in that was pain even more annoying is I have take the finder liner back out because the cage started rattling. Took the fender liner to work and sprayed it

lastly my friend got his film back from getting developed. All these photos were when we went to the drive in outside Portland to see Barbie movie opening weekend. It was packed! The wagon idle for an hour and a half on 95 degree day didn’t miss a beat

 

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Been a while and wanted to document my newest project on the wagon. The nightmare that is the rear tailgate. So here is the list of problems needing fixed
A.Gate will not lock
B. regulator is seized
C. Installing new motor (it was missing)
D. Get gate mode to work
E. Shed a tear
I have tested the motor I got off a member here
and it works and the wiring is good. Heres were the fun starts. Trying to take the rear glass out has proven to be hard. I unbolted the regulator and got the glass free from that. But can’t get the slide Channels off. The screws just spin the rear washer/nut is there any trick to it? Here’s a bunch of pictures in the mean time till I get some of the gate insides

 

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Here’s the “restored dash” still gotta get the temp and gas gauge working. The speedometer worked for 2 week with the new cable before the gauge itself broke