Mopar Muscle Association UK

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

Welcome, good choice of car.

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

Just needs a bit of tweaking to make perfect.

Something like this.
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Mark B wrote: Tue Jan 14, 20 2:37 pm Just needs a bit of tweaking to make perfect.

Something like this....
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Go and stand in the corner. You're a bad influence Mark.
It's perfect as it is.

Stu Twin wrote: Tue Jan 14, 20 3:50 pm

Mark B wrote: Tue Jan 14, 20 2:37 pm Just needs a bit of tweaking to make perfect.

Something like this....
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Go and stand in the corner. You're a bad influence Mark.
It's perfect as it is.

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

It's a lovely car, but those arches do need filling....

More like this perhaps ?

Stu Twin wrote: Tue Jan 14, 20 3:50 pm Go and stand in the corner. You're a bad influence Mark.

Isn’t that the whole point of Roadrunners / Chargers / Challengers, to be a bad influence?

Big Gene Lean’s got Vectors in mind.

RobTwin wrote: Wed Jan 15, 20 12:06 am

Stu Twin wrote: Tue Jan 14, 20 3:50 pm

Mark B wrote: Tue Jan 14, 20 2:37 pm Just needs a bit of tweaking to make perfect.

Something like this....
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Go and stand in the corner. You're a bad influence Mark.
It's perfect as it is.

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

Those last two fat-boy ones look like the instgram filter has gone wrong.
Leave it as is !!!

Dom66 wrote: Wed Jan 15, 20 7:50 am It's a lovely car, but those arches do need filling....

More like this perhaps ?

That looks good. This one looks perfect.

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MattH wrote: Fri Jan 10, 20 8:13 pm Welcome, lovely car, my favourite shape B body.

Agreed, mine too. Welcome to the club

Dom66 wrote: Wed Jan 15, 20 7:50 am It's a lovely car, but those arches do need filling....

More like this perhaps ?

That 99 race car does it for me!!

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

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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Another shot.
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