@Shoji yeah this cluster style is cars made after March 1976 only
@Simon Gee, that would be great if it’s otherwise being unused… I’m sure it’ll come in handy.
Cluster has a burnt out main earth trace, choke light + feed was broken as was + feed for the clock. Reran the traces, cleaned some bulb holders and all is good now.
It was earthing through the positive feed of the high beam light in the end, as the main earth connection was dead.
Battery guage appears dead, and the (I assume dash backlight brightness dial, in the tacho housing? I could just read the manual…) doesn’t do anything. I can live with that though.
If those jumper wires are factory, yield on the circuit boards must have been very bad, there are entire traces cut away from the PCB!
No intention to go to higher wattage bulbs… the friend of mine who did the soldering converted his XC Falcon dash to LED, as LEDs are diodes so the electricity can only flow one way… I don’t like the look. Too sterile and bright.
Anyway, back in action.
The connections to the battery need attention, the plastic threads are flogged out on the terminal doo-dads. I think I’ll just remake the entire loom, it’s only two wires and some ring terminals.
@Simon Gee, that would be great if it’s otherwise being unused… I’m sure it’ll come in handy.
Cluster has a burnt out main earth trace, choke light + feed was broken as was + feed for the clock. Reran the traces, cleaned some bulb holders and all is good now.
It was earthing through the positive feed of the high beam light in the end, as the main earth connection was dead.
Battery guage appears dead, and the (I assume dash backlight brightness dial, in the tacho housing? I could just read the manual…) doesn’t do anything. I can live with that though.
If those jumper wires are factory, yield on the circuit boards must have been very bad, there are entire traces cut away from the PCB!
No intention to go to higher wattage bulbs… the friend of mine who did the soldering converted his XC Falcon dash to LED, as LEDs are diodes so the electricity can only flow one way… I don’t like the look. Too sterile and bright.
Anyway, back in action.
The connections to the battery need attention, the plastic threads are flogged out on the terminal doo-dads. I think I’ll just remake the entire loom, it’s only two wires and some ring terminals.
The attached pic is what I was hoping to see, switch blanks for where the driving/fog light and sunroof switches would be. Looking at the parts catalogue, it looks like the whole cluster surround is one piece. I was hoping just the pocket may be able to be replaced by the switch panel, but that doesn't seem to be the case.