Hello all.
New to this forum, but not to forums in general. I'm a big poster on Honda-Tech, and have owned two Honda sports cars. Just bought my first truck, first american vehicle, and first ranger, all in one! 1999 Ford Ranger. I'm gonna be posting a short series of threads of issues I haven't been able to work out through research and tinkering, so I hope some experienced people can lend some information my way.
First issue, is that I really don't like the gauges on the ranger. For one, all of them are RELATIVE measurements, ie your needle points somewhere between Low and High but doesn't tell you anything about actual measured values. For instance, when fully warmed up the water temp gauge reads half way. I can ASSUME that's roughly 190 degrees or so, but without numbering I have no way to know for sure. Same for battery voltage (my god, that would be so helpful). 8 to 18 V or 9 to 19 V. Oil pressure gauge is a dummy gauge, but for sake of continuity a numbering of 0 to 80 psi would be ideal.
Anyway, does anybody know of a website to visit to find replacement gauge faces with instrumentation like this, with numbers?
New to this forum, but not to forums in general. I'm a big poster on Honda-Tech, and have owned two Honda sports cars. Just bought my first truck, first american vehicle, and first ranger, all in one! 1999 Ford Ranger. I'm gonna be posting a short series of threads of issues I haven't been able to work out through research and tinkering, so I hope some experienced people can lend some information my way.
First issue, is that I really don't like the gauges on the ranger. For one, all of them are RELATIVE measurements, ie your needle points somewhere between Low and High but doesn't tell you anything about actual measured values. For instance, when fully warmed up the water temp gauge reads half way. I can ASSUME that's roughly 190 degrees or so, but without numbering I have no way to know for sure. Same for battery voltage (my god, that would be so helpful). 8 to 18 V or 9 to 19 V. Oil pressure gauge is a dummy gauge, but for sake of continuity a numbering of 0 to 80 psi would be ideal.
Anyway, does anybody know of a website to visit to find replacement gauge faces with instrumentation like this, with numbers?