'94 ranger "dash" wiring

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:36 am

all my dummylights and other gauges in my dash are not listed in my books. my books show the motor and body wireing but nothing for the gauge cluster anyone got ideas on what is what and where it should be wired?

MalcolmV8 · Post by **MalcolmV8** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:10 pm

I don't think you really need to get into those wires. The exception been the MIL but that wire can be found under the hood. The only time I got into those wires was when changing out clusters. My red truck went from no tach to having a tach and a custom fuel sending unit because of the fuel cell. My blue truck went from the manual to the auto cluster and when I installed my alarm system I wanted to tap into some wires there for blinking lights etc.
What are you trying to wire into the cluster?

Thanks
Malcolm

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:00 am

I was thinking my: check engine light, low oil, Oil pressure, temp gauge, tach, I think thats all of them.

I figure with what I cut out of my harness these wire should be under the hood cut so I should wire them up solder and its done but I can't figure out whice of these wires are.

broncobowsher · Post by **broncobowsher** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:35 am

When you remove the old engine, just seperate the sender wires from the old harness. Then adapt to the new harness. All the adapting/splicing should be under the hood. If you are splicing under the dash you are doing it the hard way.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:01 am

The Harwood manual is great in showing what all needs to be spliced, so is the Ford Wiring Swap manual. Everything done under the hood. I've got the Ford Manual scanned in if that would help at all.
Dave

blk94xlt · Post by **blk94xlt** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:37 pm

I have done the wiring in my 94. When I did mine I cut off the old PCM connector near the firewall where all of the wiring comes through the cab into the engine bay and did most of the splicing there. I still don't have the tachometer working and I'm going to try to troubleshoot that this week, but this should get you started.

check engine light (MIL) - PK/LG, you can also find this wire near the data link connector next to the fuse box under the hood.
low oil light - W/PK wire going to low oil level switch on old engine harness
oil pressure gauge - W/R wire going to oil pressure switch on old engine harness
temp gauge - different for standard and sport styles. STANDARD - R/W wire going to temp sensor, SPORT - BK/LB wire going to temp sensor
tachometer - T/Y wire going to PCM and IGNITION CONTROL MODULE and tachometer service connector next to the fuse box under the hood.

If you get this all to work the first time you're better than me.

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:30 am

Thanks a lot I should be able to get what I need from this (I hope). I think the main reason I'm haveing troubles is cause I hacked the stock harness up to remove somethings make it a little neater, I just Hope I didn't cut something out I needed.

blk94xlt · Post by **blk94xlt** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:14 pm

I hacked up the stock harness pretty good too. I made most of my connections close to the firewall on the drivers side fender - some pics here: http://members.cox.net/ranger5.0/wiring.htm

I did have a problem getting my MIL to work the first time. There was a diagnostic port up next to the battery tray and fuse box that the wire to the MIL went through (actually two wires - didn't see the second one). When I cut off that diagnostic port it broke the connection between those two wires that was made at the crimp for the MIL wire in the diagnostic port and opened up the circuit. That one took a while to find.
I also thought that the temp gauge was not working so I spent some time troubleshooting that until I found out that the explorer temp sender that I was using was not the same as the old ranger sender from my 4.0L (Helm EVTM says that they are the same). Luckily the ranger sender fit into the explorer motor so the temp gauge reads like stock now.

302project · Post by **302project** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:36 pm

94stranger wrote:all my dummylights and other gauges in my dash are not listed in my books. my books show the motor and body wireing but nothing for the gauge cluster anyone got ideas on what is what and where it should be wired?

I hope this helps you
http://therangerstation.com/tech_librar ... _wires.htm
But that's for a stock gauges but this help me out installing this ones

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:58 pm

wow!!! nice dash maybe I should just do something like that!!! to bad you can't get the speedo in KM/h or can you?

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:00 pm

where did you get the gauge pod (a pillar)?

302project · Post by **302project** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:24 pm

autometer sells the guages and the gauge pod and yes you can get then in kph. go to summitracing.com

BTW you have to fabricate where the gauges go

cjcnomor4 · Post by **cjcnomor4** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:41 am

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z201 ... p_1533.jpg

94stranger · Post by **94stranger** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:05 am

do you guys happen to have any pics?

I like them both they both look sweet, I'm just a little curious as what you guys did for the lights and the actual mounting "bracket/plate"?

cjcnomor4 · Post by **cjcnomor4** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:25 am

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z201 ... uster4.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z201 ... uster3.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z201 ... uster1.jpg

I cut up the original housing to use the mounting holes, took the overlay off the gauges, sandwiched what i needed between 2 sheets of aluminum and mounted leds on the back. i have both turn signals, abs, check engine, low oil, srs light and high beam indicators.