Calling all rally dash experts!!!

[Torkmnstr]

Hey all, so with the charger I have no clue where all this spaghetti mess goes. The cluster was out of the car when I got it and I’m the worst when it comes to wiring...escpecially reading those diagrams lol. Can anyone take some pics up under their dash for me to see where everything goes? I’d appreciate it all, it’s a tick tock tach too...

 

[miller]

Ah, me...where's the tomato sauce??

 

[miller]

I’m the worst when it comes to wiring...escpecially reading those diagrams lol.

Should be easy enough to locate the instrument panel, in the diagrams, for a start. Wire color codes, the different blocks, for each gauge and switch.

Maybe someone will come up with a pic, for ya.

 

[Torkmnstr]

I can fumble my way through the big switches but there’s lots of single connectors that don’t a have a definite home...

 

[texas69bee]

 

[Torkmnstr]

Texas my man! That’s what I’m looking for. Do you have some more pics of the whole setup?!

 

[Ron H]

Wiring diagrams take some patience and yeah looks intimidating but apply old divide and conquer make a copy and use different color highlighters to trace each gauge one at a time. I've also made a simple sketch breaking out each to keep my head straight

 

[texas69bee]

1) e brake
2)dome light and tail light harness. The other one near that but not pictured is the brights on the floor.
3) steering connection
4)tach but goes through firewall
5) brake lights

 

[Torkmnstr]

Nice, any more of the cluster? Thanks.

 

[texas69bee]

1) heater box
2) cigarette lighter
3) door jam switch
4) flashers
All bulb sockets are for the lights in the instrument cluster, flashers or brake light

 

[texas69bee]

Nice, any more of the cluster? Thanks.

Sorry, that’s all I took before it went in. Untangle that mess and lay the panel up there and a lot of connections will be self explanatory.

 

[oldbee]

Texas’s back is getting out of shape, lol. Just watch the wire colors and go to town, wire diagrams are fairly easy when looking at 60’s stuff(at least to me), this new stuff that’s in vertical orientation with ground on one side&positive on the other really makes my head spin.

 

[Xp29h]

Diagrams can be a pain but here's schematics for the 69. Look at both carefully. Blow up if you need and I found most all the wires were color coded correctly in my mess. It will help a lot. Go slow and methodical. I just ripped all the wires from my 69 and put all new back in. You can do it!
http://www.mymopar.com/downloads/1969/69ChargerA.JPG

http://www.mymopar.com/downloads/1969/69ChargerB.JPG

Good luck!

Heres some spaghetti!! This is what came out. Part of it anyway!

 

[DLevel]

Hope these might help. I know what you mean about wiring, it's the part of the car I like the least also.

 

[the mississippi madman]

I think wiring is everybodies least fave

 

[moparnation74]

This is the last key picture you need....Most people get confused on the 3 speed switch connections.

 

[Torkmnstr]

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Hope these might help. I know what you mean about wiring, it's the part of the car I like the least also.

Those help out imensly! Thanks everyone for the input

 

[Torkmnstr]

Update, I connected everything and screwed in the cluster to ground it out. I don’t have any cluster lights, so either they are all toast or I’m missing something. Headlights come on doors open, all turn singnals work(except on cluster) Clock works, tach is reading, fuel, no oil though. Connected a manual gauge I had laying around. I’ve got 60 pounds running. Ammeter bypassed for now, no isolated strip on the back side. A good start for now thanks to all you guys. Now I gotta figure why it won’t idle down. Fire it up and it wants to run up the 2500-3000 grand. I suspect timing, Ned to get a timing light on her. Man this early night is killin my work time. Lol

 

[moparnation74]

I am sure you checked all bulbs and do the sockets make good contact.....The next check is the Dimmer switch(rheostat) in relation to the dash lights. Turn signal lights is either bulbs, wiring or the circuit board...

Check timing and the fast idle cam on the carb.....

 

[miller]

I don’t have any cluster lights, so either they are all toast or I’m missing something.

Time for a deep breath! Your not alone, on wiring being a pain.

It will help, if you study the wiring diagrams, to understand what makes what circuit work. One step at a time.
As on your cluster lights. First, you need a test light, and an ohm meter. For any wiring circuit, start at the power source...to see if you have power to it. That will be at the fuse box. I pull EACH fuse, and check them, to be sure their good.
Then, from the fuse box, to the lights...and everything 'in between'! Means the light switch itself, and on your 'late model', the separate dimming switch. Lights need a ground to work...so, be sure (using the ohm meter) the instrument panel has ground.
Probably something real simple, on the cluster lights. Just have to find out what. Start simple, and go from there...