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billd
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Posted: Apr/14/2018 at 10:24pm |
Cluster from an AMX shown below, which will be going into my 73 Javelin.
My TSM for 73 does NOT cover optional equipment or this cluster in the electric diagrams. Either it never did or someone ripped out the pages showing options and accessories. My 74 TSM does show accessory wiring such as radios and the tach, etc - but AMC obviously made a number of changes for 74 as the connections shown in my TSM aren't even close to what this cluster looks like. So I assume this is NOT from a 74. It doesn't match as far as connections for tach, clock, etc.
This cluster is likely from a 71-73 but my TSMs from those years show only standard equipment - no options, no radio connections, etc. So - what are the connections for this cluster? Can anyone explain which connections are for what as far as tach, clock and so on? - and can anyone pinpoint a year for this cluster - which is going into my car if I can figure out how to wire it. I have no harness and will have to make my own - but have no idea at this point what connections are for what. There's a red wire with a connector, there's a spade connector on the stud by the tach, what's what? |
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1970390amx
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I pulled one of the rally pack gauge sets out of one car and installed it in a different car many years ago. seems that the original connector plugged into the dash and had a separate wiring harness for the tac. A few sending units had to be changed from light type to gauge type sending units. And the amp gauge wiring needs fixed, some people dont like the main charge wiring coming into the dash and back out to the battery.
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1970 390 4speed Bittersweet shadow mask AMX
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billd
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I suspect the ammeter is rigged just like my 70 is - with the terminal block on the fender, etc.
I'll try to compare to my 70 and rig that similar. The tach and clock are the bigger issue - although having a diagram correct for this specific cluster would help.
I suspect there was a different or additional harness for the tach - but what plugs to what? There's that red wire - and that terminal next to it. What is what? How does the tach ground how about the clock? The oil pressure would likely use the same pin and just a different sending unit. The line of pins appears to be the same on both the original and this one and the copper traces go to roughly the same areas. |
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Lyle
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Does this help? The red looks easy and identifying the tach can be done with momentary contact with a 9V battery. Don't see the ground connection though?
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billd
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Well that helps for the clock - apparently it's that red wire with the connector - but how is the tach connected - I see nothing showing how it's wired. (I know it goes to the coil, but what connection goes to the coil - there is NO brown wire, no black wire, in fact other than that red which I now know is clock - there's nothing on the tach saying what to connect to where. There's not even a + mark on it.
So where would brown connect - and where would black connect? |
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billd
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PS - 9 volt battery?? those still exist?? Wasn't there some sort of device decades ago called a "transistor radio" that was rumored to use those?
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304-dude
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Here is one other missing connection that he in line header on standard clusters. It is from the oil pressure sender signal. you will need to pull a connection terminal from a harness. Does not need to be from a Javelin, just the type used in instrument clusters.
The rest Lyle has shown and the ammeter connections. |
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71 Javelin SST body
390 69 crank, 70 block & heads NASCAR SB2 rods & pistons 78 Jeep TH400 w/ 2.76 Low 50/50 Ford-AMC Suspension 79 F150 rear & 8.8 axles Ford Racing 3.25 gears & 9" /w Detroit locker |
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pit crew
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Bill, I am working from memory but the insulated washers should be the clue if no one messed with them. Black under the spade terminal and brown under the push on stud. That matches the wire colors. The spade terminal should be the black coil wire connection and the push on terminal should be the brown ACC power feed for the tach. The red, as you already know, is the clock power. The ground is supplied through the flex circuit board where it is attached to the upper corner of the tach case.
Edited by pit crew - Apr/15/2018 at 6:39am |
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304-dude
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Removed my reply, as not to confuse anyone.
Edited by 304-dude - Apr/15/2018 at 7:28am |
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71 Javelin SST body
390 69 crank, 70 block & heads NASCAR SB2 rods & pistons 78 Jeep TH400 w/ 2.76 Low 50/50 Ford-AMC Suspension 79 F150 rear & 8.8 axles Ford Racing 3.25 gears & 9" /w Detroit locker |
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Lyle
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What I meant was just touch each of the insulated terminals with the 9V battery to see which one makes the tach needle jump. That's the tach black wire.
As fo the other gauges try using 3V to 5V DC (batteries if nothing else) power to each connector to see what moves what gauge. The ground connection I did not see but may be just the cluster mount?
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