AU 2-3 High Series Cluster Upgrade

[fourl6]

Originally Posted by nuguy01au

dont really want dte anyway
the low washer level light disappears but not the low coolant level light. a sensor needs to be fitted in the car somewhere to stop it

you still get the dte beeping, just lose the ability to view the kms and stop the beeping...

[FGII-XR6]

you can download a doc with all the required pinouts from my server http://www.hunterit.net/cluster.doc

if you are using a S2 or 3 cluster don't change the oil sender

[BadTruck81]

Did you get the low coolant light off mate as i have the same prob and cant get rid of it????

[nuguy01au]

i went and bought new coolant bottle and sensor and fitted it in had to do bit of homemade wiring cause didnt have the plug

[BadTruck81]

Where did you tap in the wiring???

[nuguy01au]

went straight into back of the cluster. you can find pin numbers and details in this thread also if you have your workshop manual that will help

[BadTruck81]

Thanks mate saw it was pin 3 on the 20pin plug but couldnt find a diagram of pin locations for that plug?

[shayne93]

So for coolant light, earth the black wire on header bottle and red wire on the header bottle to back of cluster?

[BadTruck81]

yeah that sounds right mate but couldnt tell you which wire on the cluster. but i havnt done it yet so might not be right

[TECHNO489]

Okay so I found the PIN layout order swapped the 4 wires around

everything worked like I had hoped but came across a new problem
not mentioned on the board anywhere.

What was happening was when I start the car everything looked fine until
I needed to put the lights on. With Parkers the Odometer light would go
out.

The pin layout is as follows in the following image.


I had to do a lot of meter testing to find my answer on the next problem.
The Od lights going out with parkers on is a earthing problem from pin 15
on the 2nd connector. I found by jumping the wire from 13 to 1 fixed the
lighting problem with Od not lighting up with Parkers.
As I don't know if the white wire on pin 15 serves any other purpose
I thought it would be a better idea to put a Diode between 15 and 1
to allow power pass one way with Parker lights on. This works perfectly.



The following images shows the finished project

[TECHNO489]

Thought I would share a few more images. Got the plug from local wreckers.
I will be using this plug now instead of what I already did.
This it the small 12 pin plug, shows what colour cod wires go where.

[Barnzey]

Hi You seem to know a bit about the au cluster looking at some of the post, I was wondering if you could help... Im tring to put AU stereo controls into an EL.. Ive chased the wiring from clock work spring and RED/WHITE wire from there goes into the cluster and then come out as a RED/BLACK and a ORANGE and BLACK going to the stereo...
What happens in the cluster to go from 1 wire to 2 wires. I have looked every online and cant fine anything
Hope you can help
Thanks inadvance
Graham Barnes

[TECHNO489]

Hi Mate, this is the best I can offer. Wiring says nothing about stereo being connected to the cluster http://www.fordmods.com/ford-technic...ter-upgrade-d4
My only guess is the cluster wires are for dimming the stereo lights.

This is images of my old cluster, it's nothing great but maybe it will help.
http://oi63.tinypic.com/s5bf5y.jpg
http://oi64.tinypic.com/vbyud.jpg
http://oi67.tinypic.com/spw0hs.jpg
http://oi65.tinypic.com/dxidfq.jpg

[Ricknel76]

Thanks. This was very helpful. I have got my S3 XR dash now working in my S3 Forte.
Just did the odo light fix.
Only problem I had, was when I did the wiring to get the odo back light working, ended up activating the Smartshield. Couldn't start it.
Not sure why. Pretty sure I followed the instructions.
Maybe coincidental. I have snipped out the odo light wiring and had a locksmith reset BEM.
On the bright side, I now have a spare key.
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[Uncle_Ken]

That's what we hope when we share our ups and downs, great to hear the info still helps

[Shen Long]

i know this is a very old thread, i was just wandering, I've done all the things needed to upgrade my Ford S3 Futura to a high-series Ghia cluster, but for some strange reason, i can NOT get the illumination to work [cluster lights]. Any ideas???