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Tips and How-To's » Adapting harness plugs to 65/66 instrument cluster » 2/10/2016 10:57 PM |
Sick and tired of unplugging every wire and bulb from the back of your 1965/1966 instrument cluster just to get it out? And then to have to plug each one back in to put the cluster back in? Me too.
So, go to the local electronic store and get yourself a harness plug with the pins. In fact, get 2 of them. And with a little time and effort you too can put harness plugs into the dash harness. In fact, I used an old butchered dash harness to start with and cut the instrument cluster portion off the old harness. I used this piece of the old harness to make the first part of the harness and then put 2 harness plugs on it it. I then wrapped the wires nicely in their own wire wrap and tie wrapped them neatly to the back of the cluster with just the harness plugs dangling off the back.
Then with the original in-dash harness I cut the instrument cluster wires close to the cluster to leave them a little longer and then put the 2nd half of the harness plugs on these wires. Now I can easily plug together and unplug the cluster with enough extra wire to pull the cluster out far enough to early reach behind and unplug the harness plugs. Just like the later years.
FYI Ford, Classic Mustang Tech Discussion » Door hinge rebuild kits » 2/10/2016 10:19 PM |
National Parts Depot has a roller bearing kit with grease (zerk) fittings making the door hinges now easily internally greasable. That's about the best set out there, but it's not cheap at $119. But the kit does all 4 doors. Here's the NPD part number for a 65/66: 22810-3AK
FYI Ford, Classic Mustang Tech Discussion » Intermittent Headlighgts » 2/10/2016 10:03 PM |
99% chance it is the headlight switch. The symptoms you are describing are classic for a bad headlight switch. The switch has a circuit breaker inside it. When it gets old and overheats it cuts out and the lights go out. When it cools down the lights come back on. My 1966 Mustang coupe is a daily driver that gets approximately 20,000 miles per year since new. It currently has about 978,000 miles on it. In the amount of time I have driven this car I have come across most problems twice. I have replaced the headlight switch at least twice over the years for this exact problem. Now, it could be something else, but usually it's the headlight switch. That's my 2 cents. Good luck.
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