when it rains it pours

RedFish said

Ok so while we're waiting for under hood wiring, Lets see what it looks like inside.
I would remove the instrument panel and at some point I would light it up and maybe even drive it without an instrument panel for a time.
The factory service manual is needed but.. their proceedures would have you work all around under the dash and leave the car disabled until its all back together. There is another way. been there done that a few times. A few of my gauge service customers have too.
And by the way... A member here has a dash wiring harness listed for parts only, priced right. It's from a 73 standard dash but would provide correct wire colors, etc.. to repair yours if needed. We wont know whats needed until we get in there.
Happy to help any way I can.

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as for me being able to drive it without the instrument cluster would be a no go. when it happened i smelled smoke pulled over and shut it off immediatly. once i found out that the terminal mount was loose i tightened it and seperated the dark blue wire which was burnt almost to the bulkhead i removed the burnt stuff and wrapped it back up in electrical tape hope-ing this temp fix could get me back ( 2 miles from home). i then reconnected everything and the same thing resulted except this time it did not want to start just turned over but the wire was hot and smoldering under the electrical tape. i had to have a rollback come get me.
so far 68dartman has offered me a harness from a 68 dart for free. just have to pay shipping in which i'll probillay take him up on. once the weather clears up im gonna get out there and take the dash harness out and go over it just to check everything out since ive never done anything with it except run the juice threw it.