Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:11:18 -0700
Reply-To: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: Results - Tach installation & more questions
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The 2 prong connector is a speed sensor used by factory cruise control.
Just leave it alone. The oil pressure alarm is a 8 pin connector with 6
pins used iirc. It plugs into the top of the rear of the speedo. If your
foil does not have a connector attached to the 6 pads there on the foil
then you have a 1.9 tach foil.
The coolant temp gauges are not the same, the one in the tach is
smaller.
Run the new green wire under the van and come up through one of the
wiring grommets behind the upper grill. The speedo cable and various
wiring bundles come up through there and you can push an extra wire
through an existing hole. Cut the exiting green wire several inches from
the 14 pin connector and attach the new wire there to the now short lead
to the 14 pin connector.
If you have pulled the speedo needle off you need to pre load the spring
tension. Look closely at the face below the peg where the needle
normally rests. There will be a faint white line near the edge. This is
where the needle should be aimed while you push it back on it's shaft.
Then swing the needle over and lift it over it's resting peg. It would
have been best to lift the needle over it's peg before you removed it so
you could see where it pointed to start with when it had no spring
tension.
Mark
David Maurio wrote:
>...............
> QUESTIONS...
>
> There is a white connector on the rear of the new speedometer, it has two
> silver prongs coming out of it. My old speedo does not have this... Anyone
> know what it is for? Is it the oil pressure alarm? What do I do with it?
> I read somewhere that on an 85, you should ground it to keep the buzzer from
> going off... How do I do this?
>
> Is it normal for the coolant temp gauge to work backwards? It looks like
> the same exact gauge that was on my old cluster, which was fine when mounted
> upside down... But now that it's to the lower left of the tach it will go
> from right to left as the coolant heats up...
>
> What is the best way to run the wire from the coil to the tach... Inside the
> van? Under the van? Where does the green wire that's currently in position
> #9 terminate if it's not going to the coil?
>
> How does the speedometer work? My question is, does it matter what the
> spring tension is on the indicator arm when I put it back together? As long
> as it starts at 0 it will read the correct speed correct?
>
> Thanks!
> David / NJ
>
