

| Subject: | Need to repair/replace deteriorated instrument panel connector |
| From: | Jim Felder |
| Date: | Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:41:47 -0500 |
The instrument panel in my 90 has been removed and replaced one too many times. The foil circuit is ruined at the long connector. I spent half the afternoon gluing a plastic replacement in place to go under the folded foil, but the copper connector on the blue foil was in bad shape and I never got it to work right. When my headlights are on, the leds go crazy and the tach drops and the clock display goes blank. I know for certain that this is all related to this connector, not ground wires. I got it to work momentarily by holding it a certain way, but then more plastic crumbled and removing the connector degraded the copper strips even more. So now I have three possible choices. Replace the foil wiring, get a used instrument cluster in better shape than mine, or try to solder and wire up the existing connector copper to new wires, cut the long connector off and have individual wires go to the extensions soldered to the copper strips. Soldering to those copper strips looks iffy. Any thoughts? Jim
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