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#21
02-10-2013, 12:52 AM
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I should elaborate on what I'm doing to make it easier to understand. Our Canadian cars came with no optional gauge package, and the cluster used a printed circuit. I snipped the plug off the harness where it clipped in to the printed circuit. I crimped on some factory Packard 56 style connectors and an 8 cavity connector body.
 Then I made up a new harness from scratch for the gauge panel and used the mating 8 pin connector body on the cluster.  I stumbled across a Canadian 66 shop manual last night, which I never knew I had. The wiring diagram indicates that the green wire running to the ignition switch is indeed a ground during "crank" which would circuit test the temp gauge when starting in the same way a temp light tests during starting. |
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#22
02-10-2013, 01:01 AM
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Canadian cluster on the top, American cluster on the bottom.
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#23
02-10-2013, 06:48 AM
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Learn something every day!
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#24
02-12-2013, 12:42 PM
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Here is a Pic of factory wired '66 gauge cluster. Best size I could get. This appears to be a floor shift harness.
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#25
02-12-2013, 01:23 PM
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Here's a '65 speedo/harness setup with gauges and 4 speed.
The 3rd pic shows how I removed the pink wire from the ignition switch plug and replaced it with the pink wire that runs to the gauges. A pigtail reconnects the existing pink wire. The 4th pic show the sending unit connectors. Original oil pressure sending units use a stud and nut. If you have a different style S/U, then change the connector to a spade style connector (something I have to do). The last pic shows some other unique "add-ons" for the dash harness. The bulb socket and pressure switch are for the "BRAKE" light. This was an option. I may have been standard with synchromesh cars. Anyway it's a good thing to have with a 4-speed car. The green wires connects another two-wire harness through the firewall and onto a manual trans backup light switch. The small brown jumper wire eliminates the neutral safety switch.
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#26
02-12-2013, 01:29 PM
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One more thing I did when I converted the dash wire harness. I didn't cut the old idiot light bulb sockets off. I just tied them back. I think I cut the other ends off the engine harness and hid them with harness wrap.
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02-13-2013, 01:11 AM
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#28
05-07-2013, 12:15 PM
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Here are some Pics of a floor shift '66 Rally cluster with Tach. Found these recently and thought it might help in the future.
   
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#29
05-07-2013, 04:29 PM
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