dreddub
11-19-2012, 12:23 PM
Ok Gentlemen,
What I really need to do is pay someone to rip out the 'half and half' wiring job that the last owner put into this thing and rewire with a new harness, but that's down the road once I get this thing road worthy and decide that I like driving it enough to keep it.
Now, to the issue, like I said, the PO did a bunch of rewiring and splicing etc. I'll try to take some pics, but I think I can explain. Behind the dash is spaghetti of new and old wiring spliced with no real color co-ordination, etc. Now, there are a bunch of loose wires with taped labels that say things like 'temp gauge' but I don't even have one. Basically, I have a bastardized harness that works for most things, but the fuel gauge doesn't work. I've got the early series IIa with the 'arrow' guage' There are 3 connections on the back of my gauge, all the pics I've seen online only have two. One side is a 'double' and the other is a single. There is a paper like connection between them, with a hole, and the paper is cracked on either side of the hole. I cannot imagine that this is conductive or that it would matter that it is cracked trying to push the pieces together seems to make no difference. Now for wiring, there is a hot solid green wire that reads ~10 -11 volts. There is only one wire coming from my fuel sender it is green with a black line. The previous owner had the hot solid green hooked up to one side of the double, and the green/black hooked up to the other side of the double. The single spade across the gauge had a wire attached that said 'temp gauge' attached to it by him. Obviously, this isn't right as it isn't working. I would assume that the hot (solid green) goes on the side with the double and that the sender wire (green/black) on the single side? I don't seem to have a voltage stabilizer anywhere. Finally, I would think that the double spade might be to send hot voltage to a different gauge with a jumper. Now I've hooked it up that way but it just reads full (which its not). I've hooked it up in reverse and the same thing happens. When hooked up the way the previous owner had it, it reads empty. I get voltage at the sender of about 7V so I assume its working to cut the voltage from 10 to 7?
To make matters worse, there are two more wires floating around inside the panel that say "fuel gauge" but one of the ones that says "temperature gauge" (which I don't even have one) was connected to one side of the fuel gauge and one of the 'fuel gauge wires was just hanging loose.
Might just have to get gas every I go out until I can get front and rear seatbelts in this thing and drive it enough to see if I want to keep it. :mad::mad::mad:
If you can make any sense of this rambling and have any ideas. Please let me know.
Thanks,
Dreddub
What I really need to do is pay someone to rip out the 'half and half' wiring job that the last owner put into this thing and rewire with a new harness, but that's down the road once I get this thing road worthy and decide that I like driving it enough to keep it.
Now, to the issue, like I said, the PO did a bunch of rewiring and splicing etc. I'll try to take some pics, but I think I can explain. Behind the dash is spaghetti of new and old wiring spliced with no real color co-ordination, etc. Now, there are a bunch of loose wires with taped labels that say things like 'temp gauge' but I don't even have one. Basically, I have a bastardized harness that works for most things, but the fuel gauge doesn't work. I've got the early series IIa with the 'arrow' guage' There are 3 connections on the back of my gauge, all the pics I've seen online only have two. One side is a 'double' and the other is a single. There is a paper like connection between them, with a hole, and the paper is cracked on either side of the hole. I cannot imagine that this is conductive or that it would matter that it is cracked trying to push the pieces together seems to make no difference. Now for wiring, there is a hot solid green wire that reads ~10 -11 volts. There is only one wire coming from my fuel sender it is green with a black line. The previous owner had the hot solid green hooked up to one side of the double, and the green/black hooked up to the other side of the double. The single spade across the gauge had a wire attached that said 'temp gauge' attached to it by him. Obviously, this isn't right as it isn't working. I would assume that the hot (solid green) goes on the side with the double and that the sender wire (green/black) on the single side? I don't seem to have a voltage stabilizer anywhere. Finally, I would think that the double spade might be to send hot voltage to a different gauge with a jumper. Now I've hooked it up that way but it just reads full (which its not). I've hooked it up in reverse and the same thing happens. When hooked up the way the previous owner had it, it reads empty. I get voltage at the sender of about 7V so I assume its working to cut the voltage from 10 to 7?
To make matters worse, there are two more wires floating around inside the panel that say "fuel gauge" but one of the ones that says "temperature gauge" (which I don't even have one) was connected to one side of the fuel gauge and one of the 'fuel gauge wires was just hanging loose.
Might just have to get gas every I go out until I can get front and rear seatbelts in this thing and drive it enough to see if I want to keep it. :mad::mad::mad:
If you can make any sense of this rambling and have any ideas. Please let me know.
Thanks,
Dreddub