From:	Dave Darling [darling@simlab.arc.nasa.gov]
Sent:	Thursday, May 13, 1999 8:06 AM
To:	Michael Neely
Subject:	Re: [914] Re: Center Console help 2

>>  I believe that the gauge ends of the "center console harness" just
>> have shrink-tube-insulated female spade connectors.  Sort them out on your
>> own and plug them in.  The connections on the back of the stock gauges and
>> the aftermarket gauges appear to be the same, so you should just be able
>> to transfer the wires.  I had plugged in my aftermarket oil pressure gauge
>> to the stock wires (well, stock power and ground at least) from the clock
>> with no trouble.
>
>They appear to both be male... the harness on the car looks female, but look
>inside it and there are prongs.. there are also prongs on the gauges... and
>even if they were m and f, it's not long enough

	OK, I think I understand what you're talking about now.  (The light
of understanding breaks over the horizon of ignorance....   ;^)
	There is another separate harness, that I call the center console
wiring harness, that plugs into the connectors down on the center tunnel and
runs up to the gauges.
	If you don't have one, or can't get one, then you can make it from
wire and female spade connectors.  Use non-insulated ones for the connectors
at the bottom, and insulated ones (or non- and shrink tubing) at the gauge
end of the wires.

	Oh, and I've done you and the others who asked about the push-on
connector things a disservice.  They should be <$5 each--I picked mine up
for <$3 each, but they may have discounted it for me because someone else had
ordered them and not picked them up, and they were just taking up space.
	The other disservice is that I only have two more than I need, so I
am gonna have to tell most who asked that they can't have any from me...  You
have first right of refusal--$6 for two.  Not enough to do the whole console,
but you can at least start that way.  Let me know.

--DD

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


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