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Spoke
I think this is the crimp part to use. Your local FLAPS should also have it.

Crimp at Radio Shack

Determine the 31 wire (ground; should be brown) and the K wire and crimp them together.
cary
Ok that makes me feel better. I was beginning to feel like a dumb ass.

On the 73 schematic the ground is brown and the common is BLUE/white.
Spoke
QUOTE(cary @ Jan 17 2015, 02:01 AM) *

Ok that makes me feel better. I was beginning to feel like a dumb ass.

On the 73 schematic the ground is brown and the common is black/white.


That was my fault. I had never seen or replaced the flasher and thought the piggyback spade would work but not with the single connector for all 4 wires. Thanks for the pics.

I will include one of the crimp connectors with front or rear LED turnsignal boards.

Cheers

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Spoke
QUOTE(Spoke @ Jan 17 2015, 01:17 AM) *

I think this is the crimp part to use. Your local FLAPS should also have it.

Crimp at Radio Shack

Determine the 31 wire (ground; should be brown) and the K wire and crimp them together.


Upon further review, I'm not sure this crimp connector will work because it takes one existing wire and may require the second wire to be cut and inserted into the other slot. I'd like to see a solution where neither wire is cut.

This article shows better pics of some of the wire-tap connectors on the market.

Bare Ass Chopper Article
Spoke
mikesmith solved this dash indicator issue by making a pigtail to ground both the dash indicators to the existing ground lug on the tach.

euro911
QUOTE(Spoke @ Jan 17 2015, 08:21 AM) *
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Upon further review, I'm not sure this crimp connector will work because it takes one existing wire and may require the second wire to be cut and inserted into the other slot. I'd like to see a solution where neither wire is cut.

This article shows better pics of some of the wire-tap connectors on the market.

Bare Ass Chopper Article
You can cut the plastic 'block' at the end of the connector body to allow the second wire to pass through it.
cary
Does the indicator common just need to go ground.
Or does it need some sort of top secret ground
signal from the flasher ground.
Spoke
QUOTE(cary @ Jan 17 2015, 02:30 PM) *

Does the indicator common just need to go ground.
Or does it need some sort of top secret ground
signal from the flasher ground.


The dash indicator common just goes to ground; any ground. It behaves then like any of the front or rear turnsignal lamps.
cary
Pulled the tach out.
Looks like I mis-read the wiring diagram. The common is blue/white.
So looking at mikesmith's work. I'll remove the blue/white wires and zip tie them out of the way. Then replace them with the 3 wire jumper.

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mikesmith
QUOTE(cary @ Jan 22 2015, 10:20 PM) *

Pulled the tach out.
Looks like I mis-read the wiring diagram. The common is blue/white.
So looking at mikesmith's work. I'll remove the blue/white wires and zip tie them out of the way. Then replace them with the 3 wire jumper.



That's what I did. Make sure you insulate the ends of the blue/white wires so that they can't short to ground.

Sorry about the bad lighting in the shot I sent to Spoke.
cary
I think I'll pull them back to the flasher socket and zip tie them to the harness below it.
That way they're out of the way and obvious as to what they are.

Thanks for the engineering.
cary
Got home early and worked on the indicator grounds.
Works like a champ. Couldn't pull the common back the socket. Harness taped up in a couple different spots. Thanks from all the help.

Patiently waiting for the front LED lights.
I also installed my new Euro front lenses from Camp914.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUfLRn8eA0


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