[Rovernet] 2000TC - gauges, Petronix

[Robert Ruggeri]

Thanks for your helpful email.  I have the round speedo and tach.  They're both dead and the gas and temp gauges are not reading properly at all.



From: Rovernet <rovernet-bounces at rovernet.org> On Behalf Of Vern Inkspot via Rovernet
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 12:51 AM
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Cc: Vern Inkspot <vern at inkspotco.com>
Subject: Re: [Rovernet] 2000TC - gauges, Petronix

Hi Bob

I'm puzzled, the speedo is mechanical. Does your car have round dial or the strip speedo?

All Lucas cars from the era used the same voltage stabilizer and I don't think they are polarity sensitive. But Moss sells cheap stuff too - or at least built to a price - so I could see the problem being a bad one. But the speedo should work.

The Petronix question depends on what tach you have, some of them read low or erratically. There are fixes that don;t need the tach modified. Again, depending on the exact tach it might not be a problem.

The 2000s never had fan shrouds.

Yours
Vern


On Oct 23, 2023, at 7:25 PM, Robert Ruggeri via Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org<mailto:rovernet at rovernet.org>> wrote:

Hi All:

My 200TC has been at the shop for 3 years now.  It has never been on the road.   I was up in Vermont last week and checked in on it.  Several questions:


  *   Speedo and tach are totally dead.  Gas gauge and temp gauge are way off.    Shop says all the gauges were working OK at one point, but the "voltage stabilizer" they put in from Moss isn't working right.   The voltage to the circuit is bad or wrong.   Shop assumed that the P6 voltage is "the same as other British cars".     How much should it be?  Does Rover have its own voltage stabilizer??


  *   Shop put in Petronix ignition which works fine.  They say that the original tach needs to be rebuilt to work with Petronix.  What did others here do with tach after putting in Petronix??


  *   Anybody have a fan shroud for the engine fan?

Appreciate any thoughts you have.

Bob

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