Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:16:21 -0400
Reply-To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: 83.5/84 connector to 85+ panel checklist
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Here's a checklist that should be helpful.
The connector folds open (from the rear? senior moment here). Pin
numbers are on the end of the connector; but pin one is empty on the
older panel.
To adapt the 84/83.5 WBX connector to 85+ panel:
Pin three (panel lights, gray/blue) moves to pin one (was empty).
Pins five (panel ground, brown) and two (ground for the hazard
switch, brown) combine and go to pin three.
Pin four (high beam, blue/white) moves to pin two.
Pin six (coolant temp/level, twin yellow/red) stays put.
Pin seven (clock, red) moves to pin five.
Pin eight (fuel, yellow/black) moves to pin seven.
Pin nine (panel power, black) moves to pin eight.
Tach wire goes to pin nine - use the extra terminal you got from
combining the ground wires. Recommend green wire.
Pin eleven (OXS, blue/green) moves to fourteen. <-- this essentially
useless indicator is where you get an extra wire/terminal to ground
pin twelve if necessary. But if you're keeping the OXS, for now
leave it hanging in the air while...
Pin thirteen (ALT, blue) moves to eleven.
Pin ten (OIL, blue/black) moves to thirteen.
Pin fourteen (turn signal, blue/red) moves to ten.
On a panel with a circuit board installed in the speedometer, ground
pin twelve to simulate the second oil pressure sender of the 2.1l engines.
And if you still have the OXS wire hanging, finish moving it to
position fourteen.
Obviously you have to do your setup ahead of time, cutting and
combining wires as needed. But once that's done, the preceding order
of movement should always leave you with a place to put the pin
you're moving, and toward the end one extra wire hanging out.
Final order of colors should be:
1 - gray/blue
2 - blue/white
3 - brown
4 - open
5 - red
6 - yellow/red
7 - yellow/black
8 - black
9 - [green] with a brown end attached
10 - blue/red
11 - blue
12 - [blue/green end going to ground, or open if no L-board connector
into the speedo housing]
13 - blue/black
14 - [open, or blue/green]
Yours,
David