sammorgan3
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I've run my 67 Ford 2000 a bit since the rocker shaft / battery tray / new gauge cluster / rewire / alternator conversion. Everything works perfect. Except one issue. It's been showing me that it's running hot last couple times I've ran it. I ran it for over an hour with no problem pulling my dull 5' cutter through knee high weeds with no overheating, temp rock solid. Now it's heating up. I've flushed a bunch of rust out of radiator, I've got it sitting full of Prestone flush right now. I say showing me because just a moment ago I went back out to crank it and let it warm up again to help the flush work, I let it idle, then ran up to 1krpm for a bit, temp gauge pointing straight down like it should. Thought it was flowing again and it was fine. Until I revved it up to 1400 where the alt starts charging. As soon as the light popped out the temp needle jumped up to the edge of red. I understand it's because the system voltage jumped up to alt charge voltage. (14.6 - 14.7v)
Question is, I see on YT store that their replacement cluster for this tractor specifies that it's for generators only. I bought mine on Ebay but it appears to be the same one. So what have I got on my hands? Anyone ran into this before? Do I need some sort of dropping resistor to bring that charging voltage down some at the cluster? If I understand right the newer clusters don't actually have a "Stabilizer" resistor because they don't need it.
I'm still printing out a hose adapter to plug my garden hose into the radiator hose so I can flush it all clean anyway tomorrow. Is possible it's actually running hot after all. There was a good bit of rust in there. Still brown now.
Question is, I see on YT store that their replacement cluster for this tractor specifies that it's for generators only. I bought mine on Ebay but it appears to be the same one. So what have I got on my hands? Anyone ran into this before? Do I need some sort of dropping resistor to bring that charging voltage down some at the cluster? If I understand right the newer clusters don't actually have a "Stabilizer" resistor because they don't need it.
I'm still printing out a hose adapter to plug my garden hose into the radiator hose so I can flush it all clean anyway tomorrow. Is possible it's actually running hot after all. There was a good bit of rust in there. Still brown now.