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Gregski 05-25-2015 04:48 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Voltmeter Wire Color
 
Guys set me straight here please.

Where does the signal to the voltmeter come from, and what color wire does it travel on?

I know that the oil pressure comes from the oil pressure sending unit via a tan wire, the coolant temp, comes from the coolant temp sensor via a green wire, the fuel level comes from the fuel sending unit via a tan wire. All these wires enter the bulkhead connector and then route directly to the circuit board.

Chaplain 05-25-2015 07:00 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
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Originally Posted by hatzie (Post 7185067)
My test equipment is military surplus and Hamvention flea market gear so it was not that expensive. I probably have less than $500 in the whole bench. All but the TEK had to be repaired and cleaned up to make them serviceable.
I was able to cherry pick my TEK out of a stack of Surplus scopes and I got lucky.

Once again, "Oh my..." That's why I'll be checking in with you again real soon. It was your insight along with a couple other folks that reassured me that I was buying the correct cluster for my idiot light to gauge conversion.

No thread to prove it but I'm down to the frame and ready to come back up. I'll be installing my gauge cluster and repinning the connector in my 79 real soon.

Keep up the good work and documentation "G".

Chaplain 05-25-2015 07:05 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
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Originally Posted by Gregski (Post 7185288)
this is what the 1979 gauge cluster pin out looks like actual color wires

Been outside working on my truck all day. This was a great find as I go into resting mode for the evening. I'll be going from a 79 with the idiot light pinning to what you have just posted...I think?

Thank...

greg64 05-25-2015 08:36 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Voltmeter Wire Color
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregski (Post 7185309)
Guys set me straight here please.

Where does the signal to the voltmeter come from, and what color wire does it travel on?

I know that the oil pressure comes from the oil pressure sending unit via a tan wire, the coolant temp, comes from the coolant temp sensor via a green wire, the fuel level comes from the fuel sending unit via a tan wire. All these wires enter the bulkhead connector and then route directly to the circuit board.

The voltmeter is just fed from the +12V power that powers up all the other gauges. There is no "signal" wire.

Gregski 05-25-2015 09:03 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Voltmeter Wire Color
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by greg64 (Post 7185553)
The voltmeter is just fed from the +12V power that powers up all the other gauges. There is no "signal" wire.

Thanks the 3 prongs confused me, I looked at it again and two of them are ground on Pin #3 so yep you are correct, than you for the explanation

Gregski 05-25-2015 09:08 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
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yes I am so anal I pulled the proper three prong pink wire instead of splicing in another wire to my old one, it forced me to learn where it goes (same on the '74 as on the '76 by the way but different on the '79)

the screw driver is wedged where it plugs in to the fuse block

Gregski 05-25-2015 09:12 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Clutch Switch Delete
 
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thought this was as good of a time as any to delete the clutch safety switch even though I had the loop thing pluged in there for decades, no sense of wiring such a heavy wire two feet up the steering column if you don't have to

super easy delete, just unplug the connection from the white plug where it plugs in to the clutch switch and take that wire and plug it in to the bulkhead connector directly, this will continue the purple wire path to the starter, job done

Gregski 05-25-2015 09:25 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
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new printed circuit board going on with old clips and semi new light bulbs

Gregski 05-25-2015 09:27 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
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gauges going in...

in the end here's the verdict

Speedo - works

Water Temp - works

Oil Pressure - works

Tachometer - works but is inaccurate

Voltmeter - does not work

Fuel gauge - is missing

rich weyand 05-25-2015 09:42 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregski (Post 7185632)
gauges going in...

in the end here's the verdict

Speedo - works

Water Temp - works

Oil Pressure - works

Tachometer - works but is inaccurate

Voltmeter - does not work

Fuel gauge - is missing


Classic Parts has that fuel gauge -- 50 bucks. You might want to try to scrounge that!

bilfman 05-25-2015 10:22 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Gregski the calibration is ez. What I did was hook up a tach under the hood and hooked up the raw factory tach right beside it . As said earlier, that little blue part you solder on has small adjustable dial on it. Just turn it until your factory tach matches the good tach, run a few different rpms and all good. Yeah that dude is an electro tech. But I did it just like I said and is quite easy once you filter out the nerdspeak .

Gregski 05-26-2015 01:14 AM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rich weyand (Post 7185662)
Classic Parts has that fuel gauge -- 50 bucks. You might want to try to scrounge that!

Thanks Rich, LMC Truck wants $60 or $70 bucks for the '78 kind

Gregski 05-26-2015 10:56 AM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Visors
 
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well enuff of this electronic stuff, let's see what else the Greg has been working on... how about them Visors

first we had to remove the old swivel stick or bracket out of the old ones

not sure if I should be mad at LMC Truck for being such cheap donkeys and not including the swivel sticks when they sell you new visors or thanking them for keeping things so modular

Gregski 05-26-2015 10:58 AM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Visors
 
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when we wiped the sticks off a bit we noticed they are labeled R (Right) and L for [wait for it] ... (Left)

and that's why we clean our parts

Gregski 05-26-2015 11:02 AM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Anatomy of a Visor
 
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so The Greg decided to cut one crispy crusty visor open and see what it is made of

Anatomy of a Visor? are you serious? it's just a ....

oh wait I see, cool thanks, I did not know that's what lurked inside them little rascals ...

Gregski 05-26-2015 11:06 AM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
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of course nothing's easy but everything must be black, so we used some Denatured Alcohol to wipe off the ol' swivel sticks and tapped them off so that they could be painted black, just using the same semi flat black we used under the hood on the engine bits

to slide them in was a pain, I did not know weather to lube them up with the Rich recommended white lithium grease or slip them in dry, so I split the difference and lubed one up and left the other side dry, LOL

in the pics the sticks are still not slid in all the way, (as I came to find out when I went to mount them)

rich weyand 05-26-2015 12:42 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
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Originally Posted by Gregski (Post 7185896)
Thanks Rich, LMC Truck wants $60 or $70 bucks for the '78 kind

Here it is:
http://www.classicparts.com/1973-78-.../#.VWSibUZ_yao

rusty76 05-26-2015 05:08 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Radiator Support
 
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Originally Posted by Gregski (Post 7185283)
Found one today, $30 bucks! Not perfect but still very solid under that surface rust in the bottom corner. Got it off of a '79

Nice score. Me jealous....lol.

Gregski 05-26-2015 06:03 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rich weyand (Post 7186287)

glad you shared the link cause I thought you meant Classic Industries, a totally different company, though it's the same price they don't charge tax

http://www.classicindustries.com/pro...ts/t70841.html

greg64 05-26-2015 11:43 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty - Anatomy of a Visor
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregski (Post 7186169)
so The Greg decided to cut one crispy crusty visor open and see what it is made of

Anatomy of a Visor? are you serious? it's just a ....

oh wait I see, cool thanks, I did not know that's what lurked inside them little rascals ...

Hey! You found the visors I have in my 64. That's something I need to fix one of these days...

Gregski 05-27-2015 07:48 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregski (Post 7185632)
gauges going in...

in the end here's the verdict

Speedo - works

Water Temp - works

Oil Pressure - works

Tachometer - works but is inaccurate

Voltmeter - does not work

Fuel gauge - is missing

Well after threatening to buy a new used voltmeter on eBay, today mine started to work!

Chaplain 06-02-2015 03:17 AM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Updates!

Gregski 06-02-2015 10:22 AM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaplain (Post 7194914)
Updates!

LOL, The Greg was hurtin' for dough at the end of the month so he had to lay low for a week or so, I mounted the huge clutch pedal spring but there was not much for a picture opportunity

but as of the first of the month he has already ordered the following

1. Brand new fuel gauge

2. Another used Tach off of eBay (for $45 bucks I had to take the risk)

3. Brand new Holley carb tunning kit [more on this later] but it does involve a Test so you all may wanna study up, hee hee

greg64 06-02-2015 02:11 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Rusty, how did your visors turn out?

Gregski 06-03-2015 08:47 PM

Re: Restoring Rusty
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by greg64 (Post 7195408)
Rusty, how did your visors turn out?

LOL, they're great!


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