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When did they start using the Circuit boards ?

I owned a couple of 85’or 86 LTLs and I don’t remember any circuit boards .
But maybe because I didn’t have any problems with them .[/QUOTE]
You know now that I think about it. The only people in the US might have had the same problems we did would be heavy haul or oil patch trucks. They’d be the only things built as heavy as our trucks. And we use skid trails for highways. N.W. Ontario used to beat the entire dash structure out of the Freightliner conventionals. Break it right off the firewall. I didn’t feel bad about messing around in my dash with a soldering iron with that going on around me. May have been a Canuck thing

 

You know now that I think about it. The only people in the US might have had the same problems we did would be heavy haul or oil patch trucks. They’d be the only things built as heavy as our trucks. And we use skid trails for highways. N.W. Ontario used to beat the entire dash structure out of the Freightliner conventionals. Break it right off the firewall. I didn’t feel bad about messing around in my dash with a soldering iron with that going on around me. May have been a Canuck thing[/QUOTE]

I’m guessing it was much less trouble and expensive to solder the boards instead of remove them completely and wire everything direct lol[/QUOTE]
A lot of them got wired up that way. The whole right hand panel with all the gauges in it was pretty common to see full of Stewart Warner gauges where someone abandoned the factory stuff and had wired the whole thing.

 

Boy, IDK, I drove a lot of older Macks and Fords, and I never ONCE remember any kind of electrical issues and that was when we slipped seats and everybody added their gee-gaws,,wires hanging,,