My son got home and I tore into the 240 dash. Got the cluster apart and yanked out the detestable TCB. Before I started to wire solder 1 to 3, I looked at the instructions and the tiny unit junction bypass they sell I printed from IPD and got an idea that worked perfectly. I am not an expert soldersmith, so working in the tight confines on soldering those 2 pins prompted me to try this. It DOES require the destruction of the TCB though (which felt gooooddd). . .

1. I took the TCB, and with a pair of needle nose pliers, broke out the tiny sleeves by breaking the board right up next to the connectors that slid over the pins, there were 4 of them obviously, so I only needed 2 of them. I was being careful NOT to break the tiny tips that went through the circuit board that were soldered to the other side.

2. Once I got them out I gently bent the top side wire that went throught the circuit board straight up to provide a prong to solder. The other open end of the connector will be used to slide back over the prongs #1 and #3 like they did when they were attached to the board prongs.

3. I then soldered my connector wire to the top of the 2 connectors using the newly bent up prong as a solder point.

4. I gently slid the connectors over #1 and #3.

I installed it back in and it worked like a charm. I know this may seem like a waste of time instead of directly soldering it to the connectors, but I was afraid I might drop some solder on something I should not and fry something. Basically I made my own IPD slide on connector.

Hope this helps, and thanks for all the advice. This place is absolutely invaluable. If you have not contributed to keep it going, you should!
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93' 240 Classic Wagon 220K & 92' 740 Wagon Regina/Rex 90K