Date:         Sat, 27 May 2006 22:32:30 -0400
Reply-To:     Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
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From:         Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
Subject:      replacing the 14 pin instrument cluster connector
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I mean really replacing it.  Like putting in something new and
better.  Anybody done that?  Many of us have the old failing plastic
printed circuit foil situation, where the copper pads that engage in the
connector start to peel off and/or corrode.  I'm thinking of finding where
in the cluster each trace meets  a component where I can solder a
wire.  Put a new connector on the end of all those wires, then a new one on
the "van" side of the wires running to the cluster.

I don't think anything running to the cluster carries much current.  I
wonder if I could use a DB-25 connector like a computer uses on its
parallel port.  I have a lot of those laying around.

Edward