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Guest Ian Maycock

HELP!!!!!!!!

 

I have spent most of this weekend trying to figure out how to wire my new gauges and warning lights. Originally i had a Sierra instrument cluster, Speedo, water, fuel, no tacho. I have block connector with which fits in the back of the instrument cluster with 15 connections, on 13 are in use. I have looked all around the various websites and have looked at the pictures and helpful hints but to no avail. My problem is that the colours of the wires dont match those in any of the pictures or listsing. they dont even match the colours on the wiring diagrams in the Haynes manual????????. I therefore, have know idea what should go where?????

 

Has anyone out there had a similar problem, if so what did you do?

 

Yours in desperation.

 

Iggy :help:

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When i rebuilt mine and fitted new after market gauges my harness plug was an early one and is as follows

 

1/ Main beam neg

2/ Main beam pos

3/Seatbelt

4/Fuel gauge pos

5/Fuel gauge neg

6/Oil warning blu/grn

7/Ign warning alternator blue

8/Brake warning

9/Dash lights pos

10/Dash lights neg

11/ Water temp sender

12/ Indicator warning Right

13/Indicator warning Left

 

There was a link from pin 1 to 10 ( a neg link)

 

I have just found the above info so i hope it is of some help to you as its a while since i did mine and can only write now what i wrote at that time in my little black book.

 

HTH

 

 

Mike

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Guest The Modfather

Use this http://madmotorsport.org/Documents/dash.JPG

 

It helped me as mine were wired up directly to the pins with all different colour codes.

 

Also, find my thread on this wiring up ETB gauges. There are some pointers on there from the other fellas which helped me when I had problems with the warning lights.

 

Don't worry, just when you do wire them to the main loom, it is advisable to use the correctly coloured wires as stated in the Haynes bible, and use multi pin connectors for ease of dash removal. With all of my gauges, warning lights, ciggie lighter, fan and rear fog switches, I used two 6 pin conns, and one 11 pin conn. I have posted some clear pics on my thread, so this should help you.

 

Darren

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Guest Ian Maycock

Thanks guys i will try these.

 

Darren, i did pick up on your previous thread which filled me with insiration until i was faced with the spagetti again.

 

By the way Darren whats with the replies at 1.35am and 1.50am i assume you dont sleep them????

 

I will you know how i get on.

 

:D

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Guest The Modfather

I suffer with insomnia and hate the wife syndrome, so I don't get much sleep :lazy: :rofl:

 

It does take some serious head scratching to begin with, but the main loom should be standard wiring up to the blocks, and probably changes to something that resembles a BT junction box with millions of wires and all the wrong colour, as was mine!

 

I used the picture that tells you what pins are what, and once i wrote out the colours from the blocks and what they were supposed to go to, I then started wiring one at a time. I made the dash using the exact colours as the Haynes, and then triple checked that they went into the correct block position when it came to the loom.

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Guest Ian Maycock

Eureka :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

It wasn’t a Sierra instrument cluster that I had but a Ford Escort diesel panel. In frustration I punched into Google the part number on the back of the panel and found an instrument panel for sale in Germany with the same part number. Popped out to the local library to get hold of the appropriate Haynes manual and worked out where the wires were coming from. One of the problems of buying a finished project rather than building your own!

 

I had previously resorted to just pulling out the wires to see what gauges fell and what lights went out. This helped trace some of the wires but not all.

Now all I have to do is wire in the new gauges and away I go.

 

Thanks to those of you how helped.

:good:

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