Autometer Cluster Projects

[timcos]

Oh we care...for sure.

Nice job on rewiring.

Would love to know more about the Molex style connector and how you fit it all together...I love pictorials like this.

[-Greg72]

Originally Posted by timcos

Oh we care...for sure.

Nice job on rewiring.

Would love to know more about the Molex style connector and how you fit it all together...I love pictorials like this.

You mean this one...?




Back when I had a Fry's Electronics store just up the street, things were easier.... I just spent some time looking at the wiring schematic, and made sure I understood what all the wires in the factory "flex circuit" connector did. (mostly, it's power feeds, grounds, and the sender wires for individual gauges).

Then I went through systematically, one wire at a time, and cut a factory wire, and crimped it into the new Molex fitting.....all the while making careful notes about each wire and it's position in the Molex socket (there are REALLY small numbers embossed on Molex connectors that you can see if you have good eyes).

Later, when I was doing the gauge wiring.....



...I made sure to use the same socket positions that I had previously selected in the earlier step. It doesn't matter what you choose, as long as it's consistent on BOTH sides of the connector!!

Many of the wires are "ganged" together on the gauge cluster (lots of common 12V wires, lots of grounds) and then ultimately travel through a single connector on the Molex.

The nice thing about having the Molex there, especially with a decent sized "service loop" of wiring harness, is that the whole thing can be removed pretty easily for service or whatever...It's a work in progress (what part of my K5 isn't) so I didn't bother to use a nice bezel yet. Mostly it was a "feasability experiment" that just happened to turn out really nice. When the time comes, I will swap the cluster behind a nicer bezel and do some more work on the gauges to try to make them look more "factory"......needle colors and shapes need to be changed, font style, color, etc.

It never ends.