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TheShanMan's Defender restoration - New repro wiring harnesses!!!
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on January 12, 2009, 03:02:10 pm ---I will be replacing the pins on the connectors after my next mouser order! I'm also seeing about a 0.07V drop from the PS board to chips on the CPU board, which may be attributed to those pins. Heck, I might not even need that pot after replacing the pins!
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That's an acceptable drop. You'll always have some.
jilted:
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on January 12, 2009, 03:21:02 pm ---Thanks!!! The cab looks SOOOO much better now that the coin slots are right (compare to my original pic of the coin door in my first post), not to mention the rust being gone!
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nice restore you got going on. i can't praise RA enough myself.
i was out in the garage today working on the last cosmetic job (speaker grille) that RA made for me. another lil glitch is the marquee light fixture decided to die so i picked up another from lowes.
TheShanMan:
I replaced the wiring with repro main and AC harnesses made by Dokert at klov (he's repro-ing many Williams harnesses). I posted my review over there and thought I should do likewise here. Here's what I posted there...
Recently installed the main and AC harnesses I bought from Dokert because my Defender was a major basket case when I bought it. The boards themselves needed major work (retroactive did an awesome job fixing them) but even when they were fixed, I had trouble keeping Defender happy. Every time I did anything as little as moving the cab, I'd get rom errors on power up and I'd have to jiggle the wires to get the problem to go away. In fact, when I pulled the cab in order to do the harness install, sure as the sun rising I got a rom error on power up.
I was extremely impressed with how nice the harnesses looked, and how easy it was to install. They were as plug-n-play as you could possibly hope. The connectors are a huge improvement over my originals. Ever since I have had zero occurrences of rom errors even with moving the cab around a handful of times since then.
I appreciate a beautiful interior almost as much as a beautiful exterior, so the new wiring is also much appreciated from an aesthetic standpoint.
So in summary, it's a quality product that installed trouble-free and was well worth the money. I couldn't be happier with the results. So if you've been thinking of ordering harnesses from Dokert, get off the fence and do it!!!
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