Dashboard Wiring – 5 Hours

Don’t you just wish you had listened back then in college! It’s a little over 30 years since I attended electrical classes and the grey matter was tired then, or maybe just hung over. Anyway completed the dashboard wiring and installed the dash back in the car.

Decided to stick with the Ron Francis dash wiring loom although did use a terminal block to simplify the wiring for the gauges, horn, and dashboard turn and main beam lights.

Tried to stick with 3 main cable runs, the upper cable run consists of the gauge feed and illumination pigtails, the cable run below the 2 lower gauges is for the horn, turn and main beam dash lights, this left room for the dash harness to run at the bottom of the dashboard.

The light grey cables running off to the right are permanent gauge calibration and setting feed wires which are terminated at a panel which can better be seen at the bottom of the installed dash board picture. This panel will be mounted to the right of the fuse panel to allow easy access to re-set the trip, clock and calibrate the speed and fuel gauges.

Once the dash was mounted back in the car, the fan and ignition were connected back up, as were all the gauge sender units. So far everything remains plug and play for easy installation and removal of the dash.