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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 |
bulitt |
Aug 29 2013, 02:47 PM
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Achtzylinder Group: Members Posts: 4,188 Joined: 2-October 11 Member No.: 13,632 Region Association: South East States |
David- I crawled up on the lift to look at mine-
The turn signal bulbs each need a blue/white So hook up number 4 to one bulb and number 5 to the other bulb. Then each bulb needs either a black/white or black/green. So I'm guessing because they are taped together hook up the black/white - number 6 to the left indicator and the black/green - number 8 (yes it is black/green) to the right. Number three appears to be a black/white also? but outside the bunch taped together. Looks to me like you have a 1971 or 1972 fuel gauge? So looking at the 1973 schematic does you no good as the turn signal indicators in the 73 are in the tachometer. Is your speedo 120mph or 150? |
Jonathan Livesay |
Aug 29 2013, 04:11 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 742 Joined: 13-March 10 From: La Canada CA Member No.: 11,461 Region Association: None |
David- I crawled up on the lift to look at mine- The turn signal bulbs each need a blue/white So hook up number 4 to one bulb and number 5 to the other bulb. Then each bulb needs either a black/white or black/green. So I'm guessing because they are taped together hook up the black/white - number 6 to the left indicator and the black/green - number 8 (yes it is black/green) to the right. Number three appears to be a black/white also? but outside the bunch taped together. Looks to me like you have a 1971 or 1972 fuel gauge? So looking at the 1973 schematic does you no good as the turn signal indicators in the 73 are in the tachometer. Is your speedo 120mph or 150? They all had turn signal lights in the tach, no? If it's an early fuel gauge the 2 bulbs at the top (or bottom in the picture) are the brake warning/hand brake lights. The wires that go to the turn signal lights in the tach would indeed be the blk/blu and blk/wht along with the light blue/wht which goes to both sides, except his tach appears to be some other make probably for the V-8 and doesn't seem to have turn signal lights at all. I guess you could hook them up to the brake warning bulbs and have 2 big red turn signal lights. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The wht/grn wire is for the parking light warning light (comes on when the running lights are on, but not the headlights) and the wht/blu wire is for the high beam warning light. Edit: reread your second and third lines: The #4 wire in his picture is the only one you would want to connect to turn signal lights, gets bridges between them and is the power source for both. The wht/blu wire #5 is for the high beam warning light. |
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