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[Jupitus]

*chuckles*

It's no walk in the park, that's for sure!

[AliCourtney]

I've decided against this idea after all the comments about the difficulty. Gunna stick with me centre speedo and make a new dash.

Thanks For the help though

Ali

[Big_Adam]

There is one option you haven't thought of.

Driver side clocks. I've seen it done on a blue de-seamed mini and though it looked very nice indeed.

Hold on, let me find the issue.

Ah, found it.

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speedo in front of clocks, might well will need a longer speedo cable.

[AliCourtney]

There is one option you haven't thought of.

Driver side clocks. I've seen it done on a blue de-seamed mini and though it looked very nice indeed.

Hold on, let me find the issue.

Ah, found it.

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speedo in front of clocks, might well will need a longer speedo cable.

Thats a cool idea, may consider that when designing my dashboard.

Ali

[lrostoke]

The wiring of the triple clocks isn't that difficult, the set I brought came without the multiplug, so I just followed each circuit on the clocks from the plug till I found where it went on the clock, I then soldered individual wires to each circuit and then using a large choc block connector wired these to the corrisponding wires on the original loom.


I've also just done the reverse on a project mini where Ive converted that one from triple clocks to center speedo plus voltmeter and water temp...this time I cut off the original multiplug off the triple clocks and used bullet connectors to wire it to the correct wires on the central speedo...luckily the central speed came with all the bulb holders etc in place.

[Jupitus]

The wiring of the triple clocks isn't that difficult, the set I brought came without the multiplug, so I just followed each circuit on the clocks from the plug till I found where it went on the clock, I then soldered individual wires to each circuit and then using a large choc block connector wired these to the corrisponding wires on the original loom.


I've also just done the reverse on a project mini where Ive converted that one from triple clocks to center speedo plus voltmeter and water temp...this time I cut off the original multiplug off the triple clocks and used bullet connectors to wire it to the correct wires on the central speedo...luckily the central speed came with all the bulb holders etc in place.

Hiya Steve!

so you still used the multiplug, but spliced the appropriate wires into it, yes? My problem is that if I produce a custom loom for someone I would prefer to have original connectors properly crimped as new, but the multiplugs aren't available...

[lrostoke]

Hi mate

On the 3 clock to center clock conversion, I cut off the multiplug on the original 3 clock loom...and put a female bullet connect on each wire. I suppose in hindsite splicing into the loom rather than cutting the plug off would have been better incase somebody wants to revert back to a 3 clock set in the future.

Then on the center clock I put a male bullet connector on each wire on there... most of the wiring seems to be the same colour code as well .
Helped that the centre clock set had all the bulb holders in place still. Only aditional wires I've had to add was a feed to the voltmeter.


On my mini where I converted from center to 3 clock I had to solder individual wires to the actual printed circuit on the back of the 3 clock setup, I then used these wires to connect to the original centre clock loom using a choc block connector.
Pity I didn't know we were doing the project mini when I did my 3 clock set up, I could have just swapped plugs

Edited by lrostoke, 07 November 2007 - 12:00 PM.

[Jupitus]

Hmmm soldering to the PCB itself might be a possibility... cheers!!