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I have spent all night looking for a gauge cluster wiring diagram with very little luck. I found the attached diagram on a painless wiring installation instruction pdf that present the wiring color layout but not where the corresponding wires go. Does anyone have recommendation where to find the wiring?
I have spent all night looking for a gauge cluster wiring diagram with very little luck. I found the attached diagram on a painless wiring installation instruction pdf that present the wiring color layout but not where the corresponding wires go. Does anyone have recommendation where to find the wiring?
Mike, thank you for the response! I came across the diagrams last night but haven't had much luck interpreting. The wire colors dont match my connector. I will spend more time looking at them today at lunch.
18 pin connector means you have a instrument cluster with gauges not one with idiot lights.
pic below is from the Ford wring diagrams for 1975 F150/250. couldn't get it to rotate though...sorry.
The wires themselves are the same, i.e a high beam indicator wire is the same wire for a gauge cluster or an idiot light cluster.
They are just "pinned" into the 14 pin or 18 pin connector body in different locations.
I converted my F250 from a 1975 idiot light cluster to a 1975 gauge cluster by unpinning the wires from the idiot light cluster connector and re-pinning it into an 18 pin gauge cluster connector.
Tbruz
18 pin connector means you have a instrument cluster with gauges not one with idiot lights.
pic below is from the Ford wring diagrams for 1975 F150/250. couldn't get it to rotate though...sorry.
The wires themselves are the same, i.e a high beam indicator wire is the same wire for a gauge cluster or an idiot light cluster.
They are just "pinned" into the 14 pin or 18 pin connector body in different locations.
I converted my F250 from a 1975 idiot light cluster to a 1975 gauge cluster by unpinning the wires from the idiot light cluster connector and re-pinning it into an 18 pin gauge cluster connector.
Tbruz
One additional bit of info I did during my Idiot light to gauge swap.
I added a RocketMan voltmeter conversion. This was done by adding two discrete wires, one to direct 12V and one to negative, outside of the existing harness wires as the direct feed to the Rocketman voltmeter.
I then wired the existing idiot light cluster ammeter wires into the seat belt position( I replaced the seatbelt lens with the ALT lens) so the ALT light glows at start up and I get real voltage readings on the Rocketman voltmeter from the two discrete wires.
Sounds more complicated than it really is.
Tbruz
none of these are my gauges. There seems to be one more gauge pack. Mine has the high beam light on the right side as the warning light and a brakes warning light on the left. My high beam isn’t at the top center position.
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