Reply to "#7024 Pending Electrical Problems"

Joules,

The jumping ammeter is normal when a Pantera is first started, it should stop jumping when the battery is fully charged. You'll need to drive tha car for a while. All of the Pantera gages are "undampened", which means the needles will move as quickly as their inputs change.

A lose or dirty wiring connection would make the oil pressure gage read low, so you might check the wiring behind the gage and at the sender first. If cleaning & tightening all the wiring connections fails to improve the reading then the oil pressure sender is probably responsible for your low pressure reading, and a new sender "should" fix that problem. Its a cylindrical unit on the rear of the motor with a wring connection on the top (see tha attached picture). They're normally a gold color, the one in the picture is black.

The a/c stopped working shortly after I purchased my car, wiggling the proper fuse fixed that problem and it's been OK ever since.

In general I haven't had to deal with much in the way of wiring problems with my car, so I'm not going to be much help, but I'll make these suggestions:

Print out copies of Bill Taylor's electrical schematics, you'll find them on Mike Dailey's web site, the Pantera Place:

http://www.panteraplace.com

Clean all of the fuse tips and fuse holder connections with a contact cleaner / restorer.

Clean and retighten all of your ground connections, there are some key grounds under the dashboard that cause headaches for many owners.

The dashboard switches and the key switch are also prone to getting dirty, burned or oxidized contacts, which creates an excessive voltage drop across the switch and results in things failing to operate.

Beyond that I'll leave further advice to others on the bulletin board.

Your friend on the DTBB, George