Cheers for all your help phunkdoktaspok.

someone must have buggered with my loom by the looks of it. I'll rip the dash out of my parts donor shell & see if that loom is fully intact.

the red/white in the tacho location goes to the connector on the ignition barrel adjacent to the black/white

the green/blue goes through the firewall to a box with 3 prongs on it next to the balast resistor

Is this the right animal with the wrong colours/plugs?


PS: this is an Auto shell - do they have different looms?

hrm, my loom might be a freak.

There's two wires there alright, but they are red/white and green/blue - also they have round plugs not the flat spade connectors of the tacho. multimeter time I thinks... edit: they aren't plugged together either - I believe the ones I'm looking for should be plugged together?

Also a couple of the wires in the round plug are different too but I think they might just be discoloured as other than that they are in the right spots.

Alright, found the diagram -->Click me

but I'm a tad confused about the tacho wiring still - I assume the loop isn't there & you have to put it in?

Awesome! *goes looking for Dattodude's website*

Are the tacho loop wires definately there? I couldn't find them.

Was there a round speedo dash that didn't have a tacho? cause my loom doesn't appear to have the right gear in it. Also as Tyrie said - the large round connector appears to have totally different pinouts.

I'll probably have to put it all back & get an aftermarket tacho now goddamnit!

crap! I hope the looms are interchangable - I don't have a coupe loom!

edit: the wiring FAQ states that the loom in non-tacho cars has the loop for the factory tacho - so in theory it's the same loom?

anyone confirm?

this has obviously answered my tacho question

Hey all,

just trying to switch instrument clusters to fit the coupe cluster into my perfect stock sedan dash - but I'm stuck as the bloody wiper switch won't come off!!

the headlight one just fell off pretty much but the wiper one is on tight - do I just pull harder on it or is there a trick to it? it's just the knob on the end that's giving me grief btw - I know to undo the actual switch itself.

Also question 2 - when I retrofit the coupe cluster in - is the black wire on the back of the tacho the one to wire to the coil?

Cheers
Ash

I'm not a real member, I'm a figment of your imagination...

I'm 26

my dad took my money & bought a 120Y wagon for me with it when I was 16 - I was devistated! I wrapped it around a tree being a tool & used it to convert a sedan shell to manual as my 2nd car.

then after having a sensable late 80's lancer & a bombed up VR4 galant - I lusted after the cheap rwd fun of a datto again.