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East Windsor, NJ, USA
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Not so much woes but dilemmas.
The car is a 1976 and while I thought that the wiring harness was for the car, it seems like it might not have been.
Last night I was working on the steering column and testing the connections for the turn and wiper stalks. The turn stalk fit right in but the wiper stalk gave me some issues. The stalk that was in the car has a 9 plug female pin using 8 wires. The wiring harness has a 7 male plug with 6 wires attached. The extra wires on the stalk are a yellow and a white wires, (appears for an overdrive).
What this means is that my wire harness is for a later car, which should not be much of a problem, however it does complicate things. If I order a new stalk with the correct plug it will not fit the 1976 steering wheel column, so I'm going to change the plug on the harness to a 9 pin out, leaving the two wires in the plug but not connected to a wire in the harness. This leaves the OD switch as an option in the future and will make it easier if I ever have to change the switch out.
In other news I worked on cleaning up brackets for the instruments and put some more time on the dash. I hope to get some led replacement bulbs for the dash in the mail today or tomorrow.
The car is a 1976 and while I thought that the wiring harness was for the car, it seems like it might not have been.
Last night I was working on the steering column and testing the connections for the turn and wiper stalks. The turn stalk fit right in but the wiper stalk gave me some issues. The stalk that was in the car has a 9 plug female pin using 8 wires. The wiring harness has a 7 male plug with 6 wires attached. The extra wires on the stalk are a yellow and a white wires, (appears for an overdrive).
What this means is that my wire harness is for a later car, which should not be much of a problem, however it does complicate things. If I order a new stalk with the correct plug it will not fit the 1976 steering wheel column, so I'm going to change the plug on the harness to a 9 pin out, leaving the two wires in the plug but not connected to a wire in the harness. This leaves the OD switch as an option in the future and will make it easier if I ever have to change the switch out.
In other news I worked on cleaning up brackets for the instruments and put some more time on the dash. I hope to get some led replacement bulbs for the dash in the mail today or tomorrow.
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The dash cleaned up pretty good, I wish it didn't have those big cracks
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