At 10:35 10/26/2000, Drew Bedford wrote:
>I'm trying to wire a '86 Instrument cluster (thanks Brian!) into my
>83.5 Westy. Need to move some wires around in the multi-pin so temp
>gauge is talking to temp sender, etc. Can't find a resource to
>determine which multi-pin wire goes to what on the cluster. Looked in
>the Bentley, but nothing jumped out at me. Anyone tackled this before? Jeff?

The wires need to be considerably shifted about.  And you'll need to run a
wire for the tach from the coil up to the dash...the connector is the same
as you found.  It folds open so that you can move the pins around.

d

>Here's a circular list.  First column is where the wire used to be in
>the
>connector.  Second is where it goes.  Third is where the displaced wire
>needs to go.  It's convenient to know that immediately when you have
>wires
>squirming all about.
>
>
>80-84   85+ which goes to       85+
>3               1                       none (1 was vacant)
>4               2                       3  (cut and splice as below)
>5               3                       1
>Old terminal 5 goes to ground.  It is jumpered inside the old panel to
>old
>terminal 2, which provides a ground for the 4-way flasher's pilot
>light.  No, I can't imagine why they did it that way. (!) Anyway, splice
>
>the lead that used to go to pin two into the one that used to go to pin
>5,
>and run the pair to pin 3.
>None            None                    2
>7               5                       3 (see previous note)
>6               6                       6
>8               7                       5
>9               8                       7
>Tach            9                       8
>14              10                      13
>13              11                      14
>x               12                      none (High oil pressure except
>'85
>which has none.  Ground to keep buzzer from going off, or make more
>elaborate arrangements)
>10              13                      11
>11              14                      10
>Old pin 12 goes to a connector under the dash and stops.  You can splice
>in
>your tach wire and use this female terminal to go into pin 9 (it was the
>
>glow plug indicator for Diesels).

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"