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Old Sep 12, 2011 | 10:09 PM
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Im pretty sure the 2 black wires go together as they are grounds according to my manual.
 
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Old Sep 12, 2011 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by fixedmlc
Ok since I've been a pain if you like tomorrow afternoon I will grab my manual and try to help identify some of that mess. I can scan in relevant pages and send them to you. Let me know.
that would be more help than you know, normally if you were local, i would buy you beer, the wiring diagrams i find online are way too fuzzy to make sense of the wiring colors, i found a diagram online that says there should be a red wire, i'll keep digging for it
 

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Old Sep 13, 2011 | 07:13 PM
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i dug a little deeper, and discovered that the speedo wires were not in the main wiring loom, but it had it's own. so now the speedo is attached and working!
 
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Old Sep 14, 2011 | 01:04 PM
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Awesome- I apologize, I got hung up with work and family last evening. I brought up PO as Parole Officer because I am a Juvenile PO. I am glad you worked it out- do you still need schematics?
 
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of course I'll take schematics, i'm sure it's something i'm gonna need later
 
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