Strange electrical socket behind aircon panel

Hi all,

My 1983 110 has aircon, and the usual "parcel shelf" is covered with a
plastic panel containing the airvents (plus cigar lighter and clock).
Behind it is the usual wiring and vacuum pipes, and the wiring loom has
a strange 8 hole socket in it, one hole of which is the permanent
electrical feed for the clock and cigar lighter. What are the other
holes for? I'm thinking of getting one of the 52mm rev counters
mentioned a few days back, and am wondering if it can be plugged into
one of these holes (wishful thinking!)

Cheers,
Stuart

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:11:06 +0100, Srtgray <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My 1983 110 has aircon, and the usual "parcel shelf" is covered with a
> plastic panel containing the airvents (plus cigar lighter and clock).
> Behind it is the usual wiring and vacuum pipes, and the wiring loom has
> a strange 8 hole socket in it, one hole of which is the permanent
> electrical feed for the clock and cigar lighter. What are the other
> holes for? I'm thinking of getting one of the 52mm rev counters
> mentioned a few days back, and am wondering if it can be plugged into
> one of these holes (wishful thinking!)

No idea about your collection of holes but it was I that was wondering
about Rev Counters. First h/fords I went into had a great big (80mm?)
white jobbie - far too ostentatious. Next up I went into one o them there
boy racer shops, a rev counter? wassat then?, then the manager: what car
is it for? - hopeless.

Finally found one in another h/fords - black (green illumination) - had
one of those daft orange needles for setting your gear change engine
speed. fortunately, this can be removed by careful application of side
cutters. Fitting was fairly simple so far as the wiring went, but I
didn't go overboard on complexity.

Used some 8-way alarm cable I had kicking around, using the colors from
the rev meter wire and doubling up with one other. two cables go to the
coil - I used one of the coil mounting nuts as an earth point and as the
wiring was already in more or less the right pkace I took the illumination
feed from the wire feeding the side light (scotch-block thingie). The
meter itself doesnt suggest any trivial mounting methods - currently using
tie-wraps to hold it to the bracket where there was once a radio.

To do a professional job and mount the thing properly (including routing
the wires) would take considerably more effort I think.

--
William Tasso

110 V8