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i thought there was no difference but confirmation is always good, thanks, was leaning towards an issue with the cluster as the l2 is fine
.......part 2 of the above mod... this way i only have to link 5 external wires, 1 to the ecu and the 4 switches.
Much easier than splicing into the dash wiring and if i use a 5 pin connector to the 5 wires that are hanging forward in the pic it's easy to transplant to other vehicles if i ever get rid of the car and keep the cluster.
Cluster slides straight in like this, just ran a wire to the ecu and have the basic functions, now just to get a switch block and install that, at least it has an odo for roadworthy.
Use an adjustable soldering iron and set it to the lowest possible heat setting to melt solder, not a monster iron but a good electronics one and it's easy to solder to the tracks without damaging/lifting from the plastic once you scrape a small area with a knife and tin it. Don't solder to the edges but to somewhere in the middle of a track like pictured, don't hold the iron on there to long, just long enough to tin the area, i also put some good quality tape over parts to stop wires from moving around, could also use small dabs of hot glue.
regarding the issue with the speedo i mentioned earlier, the unit is stuffed, just adding 12 volt power to it and it jumps to 80, spare parts it is.
Hi guys im new to this but just wondering i just bought a digital dash from ebay to install in my 89 vn commodore s and when i put it in it started smoking and blew...
I didnt do anything except take my old one out (which wasnt digital) and put the new one in...
HELP????????????????????????????????
Going wrecker hunting thi weekend, just been through all 23 pages and I've got most of what I need.
Just one thing I must have missed.
With the soldering the standard LH SB to the trip comp LH SB ( as in page 16) How necessary is this? Is this just to get the interior light delay? Or also to get the wipers to work?
I have a VP v6, plan on getting all VP V6 or VQII parts, so just wondering what is the soldering the PCBs together's function?
Thanks