1973 loose wires behind the dash |
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1973 loose wires behind the dash |
HalfMoon |
Aug 27 2013, 03:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 828 Joined: 13-November 12 From: Shenandoah Junction, WV Member No.: 15,144 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Imagine my dismay when today I decided to open the dash (I was trouble shooting a fuel gauge not working-easy fix, PO had cut the wires at the tank for some reason), discovering a huge amount of loose wires. The PO had installed a completly different tach so I'm hoping alot of these wires (11) had a purpose for being disconnected. Vain hope most likely...
I did notice the brake warning light stays on all the time...and of course nothing else works (except the fuel gauge that I just hooked back up). The car is a v-8 converted teener so alot of stuff may be disconnected for that reason as well. The real problem is that I'm VERY color blind. I can read a schematic reasonably well if I know what color wires I'm looking at on the car, which brings us to the reason for this post! Could someone help me identify the loose wires I've numbered in the enclosed photograph? What color corresponds to the numbered wires? With that data I should be able to figure out what was supposed to go where and assimilate if it was disconnected for purpose. Wiring and color blindness can be a serious challenge, so any help is appreciated :-) David Oh and btw, if you click on the image and then click again you'll get a very close view |
JeffBowlsby |
Aug 28 2013, 01:19 PM
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914 Wiring Harnesses Group: Members Posts: 8,533 Joined: 7-January 03 From: San Ramon CA Member No.: 104 Region Association: None |
This is really sad to see, you are going to have hard time connecting all this up. Someone simply cut off the chassis harness wires to the dash gauges rather than take the 0.2 seconds required to remove the connections. Some of this will require at least soldered spliced-in connections.
NOTHING EVER NEEDS TO BE CUT OFF A WIRING HARNESS, JUST DISCONNECT THINGS! Some of those wires maybe just needs simple crimped-on 1/4 in female wire terminals if teh wires are long enough to reach their gauges, others may need a light socket which can only be clipped off some other harness. |
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