From:	Dave Darling [darling@simlab.arc.nasa.gov]
Sent:	Wednesday, May 12, 1999 2:59 PM
To:	Michael Neely
Cc:	914
Subject:	[914] Re: Center Console help 2

At 2:29 PM -0700 5/12/99, Michael Neely wrote:
>Called AA today, they said they'd call back before they closed with the
>answer if they had any. They never did. I don't think the sales rep. even
>knew what they were.

	If, by the "they", you mean the push-on connectors, try your local
VDO speedometer shop.  Take the part number in with you (sorry, you'll have
to dig it up out of the archives) and ask them if they can order it.
	Don't fret about it if you're on a budget, though.  The standard
~1/4" female spade connectors work fine.  I have a "strip" of them I got at
my local electronics surplus store (Haltech, for the locals) that come with
pretty red insulation already in place.  A perfect fit.  The push-on connec-
tors are just to help clean up the wires in the back a little bit.

	If, on the other hand, you mean the center console wiring harness,
then you may wind up having to make your own.  Depending on the year of your
car, this can be easy or rather tough.  If you have a 73+, hopefully there
is a connector of some kind up near the gear shift lever.  You may have to
remove the center tunnel carpet to find it.  Actually, it's a bunch of
paired one-wire connectors.  You match up the wires in the connectors to the
instruments you are installing, and crimp on the appropriate connectors on
each end of the wires.  Check the wiring diagrams for the later cars (the
Pelican web site has lots of nice color diagrams!) for the particular wires.
	The gauge-end of the wires can just use the insulated spade connec-
tors.  The other end, the end that plugs into the connectors by the gear
shift lever, need NON-insluated female spade connectors.

	If you don't have the wiring in place already, then you will have
to run some wires yourself, and make the connector yourself.  You can pick
up a number of styles of connector at electronic supply houses.  I like to
use Molex, or "GM Weatherpack" stuff.  Cheap and easy--crimp on the metal
pins to the wires, slide them into the plastic housings, and that's it.
	Again, check the electrical diagrams for some idea of where the
stock wiring to the gauges comes from.

	Please ask if you have more questions.

--DD

Dave Darling                                  74 914 2.0 (decapitated)
                      darling@simlab.arc.nasa.gov
                        "OFF WITH ITS HEADS!"