Vixen - voltage stabilizer

[tomtrout]

Were the Vixens running AC instruments ever fitted with a voltage stabilizer? If so where is it supposed to live?

[Adrian@]

I might be wrong... but they are powered directly from the regulator. (my office is being decorated and the filing cabinets are face to face at the moment).
Adrian@

[ATE399J]

To the best of my knowledge AC gauged cars weren't fitted with voltage stabilisers for these ancilliary instruments - at lease, I didn't find one when I re-built my car's loom .

[Monkeythree]

My car had a voltage stabiliser fitted when i bought it but that was in 1991 so there is every possibility that it wasn't fitted when new. It is fitted to the back of the dash near the ancilliary guages. My readings have been shonky for a while now and I was going to investigate if the stabiliser had failed but I haven't got round to it yet. There is a useful article in the March Kit Car mag which explains all about them.
Tom

[tomtrout]

Thanks for the info. I want to stick with the AC gauges if I can get them all to spring into action. My fuel gauge looks to be working ok and I am hoping to be able to get my old AC temp gauge talking reasonably accurately to a smiths sender with a little bit of jiggery pokery. I believe the original temp sender (which I haven't got anyway) is an old Vauxhall unit but it is a much bigger thread than the smiths compatible one which is tapped into my cylinder head. We certainly know how to enjoys ourselves don't we!!