digithead
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- Joined
- Jan 24, 2016
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- Location
- UPSTATE NY
- My Car
- 1973 Mustang 351C-4V 4BBL 4 SPEED CONVERTIBLE White
What a horrible design is the connector system for the dash cluster circuit board? My old one was in rough shape so I bought a brand new one from CJ Pony parts. Easy to install. I plug in the male connector from car dash. Try my dash lights and when I wiggle that connector the lights go on and off. Since the PC board is new and no corrosion, I clean contacts on the male plug with wire brush. Same results. So I take very small pointed tool and bias (lift) those spring contacts on male plug up and out to make them press harder on board. THat did the trick. But its still crappy design. If it gives me any more lip, I will source a nice multi pin canon connector (male+female) set and solder on hard wired leads from contact points near lamps themselves, bypassing that crap flapping in the breeze plug system thats there now.