printed circuit ???

[topless82vette]

on my center gauges I have a oil temp gauge, my printed circuit has been cut there and taped up, the gauge is hard wired looks factory though has a solid 3 wire connector, is this factory or is my circuit just from another year. also do any vette suppliers sell wiring kits to eliminate the printed circuits, or is there any members who have done it and want some bucks to do it for me.

 

[cruzer99]

Is the guage not working?
Is nothing working?
Why do you want to hard wire the dash panel? (real pain and not as reliable in the long run)
Are you wanting to change the guages to something diff.?
I have found that the printed circuit used on these cars is very good and gives very little trouble. If yours is bad they are easily replaced. Most are setup for either analog or idiot lights and only require you to change the sending unit.
My .02.........

 

[topless82vette]

cruzer

my original circuit where you plug the harness in the contacts dont stay in place and most of the stuff doesn't work then, so I really want to wire each of the guages seperately like the oil temp gauge is.

 

[80convertible]

Topless,

You may have a circuit board designed for a cluster with a clock instead of oil temp. I have an oil temp gauge hard wired yet have a circuit board designed for a clock... so it's been taped. Sounds like you have the EXACT same setup.

Jim

 

[topless82vette]

80 CONVERTIBLE

so this isn't the stock 82 printed circuit

 

[cruzer99]

Hey Topless,
I would bet that a stock 82 (with oil temp), printed circuit would work fine. I have not seen an 82 (I have had two), that did not have a oil temp guage. Or am I missing your problem?

 

[GerryLP]

Topless,

My 1981 center cluster printed circuit is the same way. I also have the oil temp gauge. The corvettes without MTR stereo radios had a clock. The ones with the MTR radio had an oil temp gauge. The reason was that the radios had a function for clock.

 

[80convertible]

Topless,

I don't know if your circuit board is stock or not. Maybe Chevy did not have a circuit board designed for the oil temp gauge and just hard wired the oil temp. Now that I think of it, I have never seen a seperate circuit board in the vette catalogs designed for oil temp. So the questions is....did 80's vettes with oil temp have there own circuit board??? Is your board not working properly, or are you just curious?

Jim

 

[80convertible]

Topless,

I read your response to cruzer about some of your gauges not working and the harness connector not properly engaging the tabs on the circuit board. I took a pencil eraser and cleaned all the exposed copper on the circuit board including those tabs. Then I glued the tabs down so they could not move around when connecting the wiring harness. I also discovered that my wiring harness harmonica connector had one of it's locking tabs broken off, so I replaced it from a junk yard camaro wiring harness. Have never had another problem with my gauges. I personally think you will be better served trying to improve the existing connector versus hard wiring all the gauges.

Jim

 

[Twin_Turbo]

82 has the same printed circuit as the previous years. Cheap old GM just folded the part for the power & ground to the vlock back so it'
s not used. The oil temp sender uses a 4 pin connector.
Ever noticed the speedo on an 82 also hsa a choke light? no bulb but the little screen is there.