Ken G's Journal

I've been working on getting the instruments in and rewiring the dash. The main harness I'm using in the car is from a 1980, The car itself is a 1976.
I have two dash harness available a 76 and a 80 harness. I started first with the 76 and ran into a minor issue. the headlight switch is wired into the 76 dash harness where on the 80 it is in the main harness.

This gave me three wires in the dash harness going to the light switch that I would need to rewire to their proper location. So I decided to switch to the 80 dash harness. This is working well with only a minor obstacles:
- The 76 steering cowl does not have a location for the light switch, but as was pointed out by V8MGBV8 the wires are long enough I can move the switch to the dash.

- The hazard switch for the 1980 car has the same pin out as the 76 car BUT the switch is a lot smaller so I need to get a proper sized switch.

- The fan switch for the 76 is larger and has a different pin layout than the 80 switch, so I need to figure out how to get the smaller switch into the bigger hole. I may get a blank and mount the switch in that. I'm not really worried about it now as I have done a heater delete so the switch will have nothing behind it anyways. It may end up being a manual switch for an electric radiator fan.

- The 80 dash has a brake warning light where the 76 dash has a brake switch. I plan on removing the switch and mounting the light someplace.

- The dimmer switch was not working so I've hard wired it together adding a 10 amp fuse

I also replaced the dash bulbs with LED's,

The next goal is to get the dash back into the car and hooked up and finish off the rest of the harness connections.