Recent content by rikubot

Yes, that is very helpful! Thank you very much.

Does anybody know of a good thread for a restoration or have any good tips? My mirror isn't out a a charger so I have to shorten the cables to fit. Anyone have any pics or measurements? Thanks in advance. Mike

I'm trying to find a decent how-to on here but I cant :/

I finally got some decent pics of my cluster. I repainted it and refaced my gauges, and added a tic toc tach too. Let me know what you think!

Hi guys, got some map light wiring stuff. My issues (well, car-related issues): My '69 came with the map light option, but the wiring to mine was butchered up pretty bad. I have found a diagram for a '68 I believe but it differs from some of the pics I have seen of original map light...

Schindy, I did not.

My PC board looks to be in pretty good shape. I did clean up the contacts for the bulbs and the bolts where the gauges attach. I also put a little dielectric grease on the surfaces. Surprisingly the pins in the board were nice and tight. The repop I was talking about was the Panel Light Dimmer...

I meant to refer to the Panel light dimmer switch on the dash. Sorry, I get carried away when typing and lose some vocabulary. And yes I do mean "hazard". I was just going off the label on the bezel. Yes I traced the two flasher sockets on the diagram to the proper devices. Both flasher units do...

My dash wiring was completely make-shift and my gauges were mounted on a piece of wood. The previous owner had all aftermarket gauges, and all the engine wiring was also his own creation. He had spliced the headlight harness and wiper harness into his wiring, and riveted a plate over the hole...

Here is a photo of my bulkhead: Here is the headlight harness where the factory connector sat right near the battery (was missing originally): Here's my old "harness": And here is my new (to me) cluster in the dash: Here's Christine:

I have noticed that in order for a strong physical connection at my crimps I had to put a lot of care into them. I did NOT solder them as I am not quit sure how to get solder into the connectors. Any tips? I am using tube crimp style connectors. Another question I would have: what is considered...

Thanks for the heads up guys. That's easily my worst nightmare. What I ended up doing was building new harnesses (except headlight) and rebuilding new bulk heads for them. I plugged everything in and fixed the connection between the starter relay and the positive batt cable and she came alive...

@ Yatzee, Thank you for all the information. I haven't had the chance to get back into it tonight but one thing I did notice and want to mention: The red heavy gauge wire going from the starter relay to the positive battery cable probably has less than half its copper wires still attached. Not...

It's not the usual "clicking" you would expect, but more of a clicking than anything else. Almost sounds like a stun-gun zapping. - - - Updated - - - Would I need the wiper motor harness hooked up as well? Right now on that harness all I have made is a make-shift neutral safely bypass. - - -...

I did that and got it started, then I killed the motor to try it again, and now I get a really strange kinda loud noise coming from my starter and it wont turn over? Did I just destroy something?? X(