well I got the old dash harness out and new one in.

[70charginglizard]

Got motivated enough today to yank that old piece of poopie dash harness and got the new one in. just have to wait for some work needed on the cluster alt gage and radio ipod line incorp and it will hopefully be back together in working shape in a week or two. 

Man my back is killing me....



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[resq302]

yeh that dash harness can be a royal pain in the arse.

[70charginglizard]

getting to it wasnt too bad.


Getting it out and getting the new one in totally sucked. 



I never want to have to do that again. lol

[Rolling_Thunder]

Can always be worse my friend - troubleshooting a dash harness is not something i like doing - usually some radio installer cuts a wire or something and causes havoc elsewhere....      I'm 6'1 and broad shouldered....    crawling under dashes utterly sucks...         

[Silver R/T]

be glad that you didn't have to do it on a newer car

[y3chargerrt]

Taking out the front seats makes working under the dash so much easier.

[RECHRGD]

Taking out the front seats makes working under the dash so much easier.

Agreed!  At 63 it's an absolute requirement.

[BrianShaughnessy]

Nice! 

Red Line doing a volt meter conversion ?   

[70charginglizard]

Nice!  

Red Line doing a volt meter conversion ?    

Actually I'm dropping off the cluster to a place called JC automotives to do that. They do it pretty routinely and they said they look over the other gages for me as well on the cluster.

I just hope they get it done in time for me to get it back in so I can make my Cruise to Colby show and cruise. That's the key and that show is memorial day weekend.

I just cant wait to have all this electrical stuff behind me now.  

They are also rebuilding my original am radio with a pigtail for MP3 usage. That should be pretty cool. They said thats gonna take a bit longer but I dont need the radio in to make the show so no big deal there.

[70charginglizard]

can some go out and tell me which side the double pink and which side the white connects to on the stop lamp switch for there brakes. I cant remember. Does it even matter?

[Nacho-RT74]

doesn't matter. Mostly sure would have an standart factory setup, but really doesn't matter.

I usually use the fixed prong to the pink and the moving prong to the white

[BrianShaughnessy]

I just got a email from YearOne...

25% off wiring harnesses today only.    Code is WIRE1 at checkout. 

[70charginglizard]

Just got the call yesterday. My alternator gage upgrade on the dash cluster is done so I get to go down and pick that up today and finally get this all back together to see if it all works. hurray.   they also found me the original wire harness and speaker set up for rear speaker option. Cool. I'm gonna put that in for the original radio rebuild im also having them do for me. 

I'll let you all know later how everything came back together

[70charginglizard]

Well I got it in. got the car started and everything worked great for a minute or two and then poof. out went the dash lights. I think that new dimmer switch I just bought is a defective one so I'm gonna take it out and have it tested. Grrr. At least I got the car started and running and the dash gages, console and A01 lighting stuff seems to be all working great. Few more little bugs to work out and I should be back in business

[70charginglizard]

Never mind. the dimmer switch is working now. the screw holding it in was loose. Tightened it up and it now works.




Only real issue now is that my headlight door relay isnt working with the headlight switch. I may have to go back to my toggle switch setup until I figure that one out later.

[six-tee-nine]

You just GOT to show us some pictures of the voltmeter conversion..... I did'nt knew it already existed but I was thinking about that myself but since that is waaaay to far ahead to be concerned about i wasn't really thinking about it. but that's another question answered....

[70charginglizard]

You just GOT to show us some pictures of the voltmeter conversion..... I did'nt knew it already existed but I was thinking about that myself but since that is waaaay to far ahead to be concerned about i wasn't really thinking about it. but that's another question answered....

There is really not much to see. It looks just like it did before I brought it to JC automotive restoration to have it done other then there being two very nice shinny studs coming out of the back of the gage that now have internal welds holding them in. Much better then factory.  


Im more concerned about my headlight doors not working now. They were working fine with the old harness and relay. All the sudden with this new harness I have nothing.

I'm thinking that perhaps my cleaner current in the new harness might have fried my old headlight motor. I'm going to test it locally when I get home tonight. Either that or my old relay burned out under the stronger cleaner current.  lol

[70charginglizard]

lol...it was just two of the bolts on the headlight motor. I guess the reverb of that 440 loosend them up or something. everything workin now. 

[resq302]

lol...it was just two of the bolts on the headlight motor. I guess the reverb of that 440 loosend them up or something. everything workin now.