'87 Instrument Cluster - Please Help! - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

4t5acp · 08-02-2007, 09:16 PM

I have the instrument cluster ready to go back into my '87 V1500, but there's a particulaar wire that I can't figure out where it belongs. There's a bulb in a 1/4 turn twist-lock socket between the speedometer and fuel gauges. It is powered off the printed circuit. The socket also has a bracket on the side of it with a black wire coming off of it. This black wire has a round copper "plug" crimped onto the end of it. Try as I may I cannot figure out where this wire goes. The bulb lights up fine, as does everthing else - I think. Where does it go and what does it do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated - THANKS!

cochino12 · 08-02-2007, 09:18 PM

Is that the wire that goes the the light on the ash tray?

Slonaker · 08-02-2007, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by cochino12

Is that the wire that goes the the light on the ash tray?

The ashtray is lit by a fiber optic cable with a remote bulb, I think. If you check it out, and it isn't a wire, it is probably the light for the ashtray.

Slonaker

**Captkaos** · 08-03-2007, 12:22 AM

Yes that is the one, it is actually a fiber optic cable, it shouldn't go between the speedo/fuel, it should be the top corner of the fuel guage.

4t5acp · 08-03-2007, 11:53 AM

Many thanks to all! I must have put the twist lock into the wrong hole sometime in the past 20 years since I got the truck and I don't even remember the ash tray having a light so that would explain that. Again, thank you so much for the help.

08-02-2007, 09:16 PM	#1
4t5acp Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: NC Posts: 66	'87 Instrument Cluster - Please Help! I have the instrument cluster ready to go back into my '87 V1500, but there's a particulaar wire that I can't figure out where it belongs. There's a bulb in a 1/4 turn twist-lock socket between the speedometer and fuel gauges. It is powered off the printed circuit. The socket also has a bracket on the side of it with a black wire coming off of it. This black wire has a round copper "plug" crimped onto the end of it. Try as I may I cannot figure out where this wire goes. The bulb lights up fine, as does everthing else - I think. Where does it go and what does it do? Any help would be greatly appreciated - THANKS! __________________ Romans 10:9-10

08-02-2007, 09:18 PM	#2
cochino12 It followed me home? Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Yup Posts: 5,751	Re: '87 Instrument Cluster - Please Help! Is that the wire that goes the the light on the ash tray? __________________ Adam That's why they call it a shortcut Kyle, if it was easy it would just be the way. 86 c-10 SWB 85 CCSB 90 GMC K30 Crew SRW 1985 C30 Dually

08-03-2007, 12:22 AM	#4
Captkaos www.73-87chevytrucks.com Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 6,935	Re: '87 Instrument Cluster - Please Help! Yes that is the one, it is actually a fiber optic cable, it shouldn't go between the speedo/fuel, it should be the top corner of the fuel guage. __________________ Chris Lucas 1973 Chevy C-10 1978 GMC Jimmy (2WD) - SOLD 1987 R10 twin turbo LS 1991 R3500 SRW CrewCab 1985 K5 diesel swapped project 1989 K5 2WD conversion w/ Vette susp Project Captkaos Customs 73-87chevytrucks.com

08-03-2007, 11:53 AM	#5
4t5acp Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: NC Posts: 66	Re: '87 Instrument Cluster - Please Help! Many thanks to all! I must have put the twist lock into the wrong hole sometime in the past 20 years since I got the truck and I don't even remember the ash tray having a light so that would explain that. Again, thank you so much for the help. __________________ Romans 10:9-10

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