I bet when you saw you had no oil pressure you're pressure went up!
BTDT
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Cawrse" <nqrithjim@hotmail.com>
To: "Brad Holmes" <bholmes@monk.aum.edu>; "Datsun Roadsters"
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 10:21 PM
Subject: Nice twisty roads and a instrument voltage regulator
> For all:
> I went for a nice 3 hour ride in SAKE RKT on Saturday
> afternoon, all through Pungo, down into North Carolina,
> to the Currituck Sound ferry landing, back to the dismal
> swamp and up Rt 17. We may not have cool mountains
> in these parts, but we do have cool deserted twisty
> two lane roads.......I had an old buddy with me who
> had shown up for my Navy Retirement Ceremony,
> and he thought the roadster was great, he has
> a Porche 944S and an old Miata. He allowed as to
> how the roadster was considerably faster and more
> tossable than the Miata, but I already knew that!
>
> About 2/3 of the way through this little trip I noticed the
> oil pressure was pegged at zero! Well, I thought, if
> it was really zero the engine would have already blown up,
> so I kept on, and subsequently noticed I had no gas,
> and an ice cold engine, then all gauges started working
> again......so I am thinking I need one of these instrument
> volatage regulators also. I will check all the connections
> first, but I would consider the symtoms to point with
> high probability to the little tin box under the
> steering shaft with the two wires coming out of it.
>
> Over the course of 3 hours the clock advanced about
> 20 minutes, so this may mean there is some sort of
> hope of repairing it! I think it may run for a few
> minutes when you go over big bumps.
>
> More to follow....
> Jim
> Chesapeake Virginia
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad Holmes
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:35 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: voltage regulator
>
> It's located under the steering wheel and looks like this.
> http://www.datsunroadster.com/PIC_PAGES/NEW_PARTS_PIC_PAGES/250-02.htm
>
> Brad Holmes
> SEROC
>
> > I have a '66 1600 that the fuel gage and the clock adn temp gage work
> intermittently. The wiring diagram for the early models shows a voltage
> regulator, as a small two wire mechanism. Where is this i>
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