issues dash lights, wire missing.

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  1. comixo

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    Hi im Daniel, sorry about my bad englis, i have a problem whit my panel lights, woorks fine, but i send my mav to paint, and when then come back the panel light dosent work again, D:

    just dont work, the light panel, i clean all board, and the terminal, but i see the line of the ligths its the wire missing, and a wire its alone, then i like to know its that wire for that line? i leave a picture to explain.

    the hazzard, and the up lights, works fine, alternator too. but the bakc light no.... /: before works super fine, the dimmer too!!.... u.u


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    is getting a plug and splicing it in an option? are there any wire connectors at all on those wires?
     
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    You have a 74-75 printed circuit wired to a 76-77 wiring harness. The 74-75 has an oil pressure and temperature light, the 76-77 has an engine light. The seatbelt light location also changed. The 74-75 doesn't have the Fuel Economy Light like the 76-77 have
    http://1bad6t.com/Maverick/repair/images/74-75PrintedCircuit.gif
    http://1bad6t.com/Maverick/repair/images/76-77PrintedCircuit.gif

    Here are the different wiring diagrams used through the years
    http://1bad6t.com/Maverick/repair/chassis_electrical_05.html
     
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    its all wire coenctions.

    Yesterday i read so many treaths, i will check more.

    here a video of the gauge problem, u can se how the alternator light go dow and up, when the gas stay in the 1/4

     
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    Okok i will check that, bucause its a 76 circuit O.O im sure. and the other (i changed last week) same a 77 circuit board. and i compare its teh same board.



    its a video about the problem fuel, u can see how the altrernator light go down and up, when the fule stop in 1/4
     
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    you right, its a 74-75 board, but only change one groind, the ground fastend belts, all lines are same. and the panel the names of the ligths :) dont think its that the problem. i will check the fuse box,

    http://www.1bad6t.com/Maverick/repair/chassis_electrical_04.html
     
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    ok the fuse its ok.... so i think maybe in the paint taller, the wire was cut or i dont know, and i lost that terminal....the line panel maybe.
     
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    Ok guys, i fix it xD. whit a cable to dimmer swhitch, i connect the dimmer whit the line in the board, and WOALA!!!! its working, and dimmer again, i think maybe in the paint taller they cut a cable, or soemthing, i really dont know, because its not a cable or pin conector there O.O....

    so now only neeeds check the fuel gauge

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    i leave us a photo of my mav. the front bumper its in the chrome taller.

    i will take more pics from the interior and all boby to show the maverick.

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    Is there a photo like this for the 1970 maverick this is I can read. I’m trying to install a after market cluster and need to connect the new wire.
     

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