Okay I assumiong the years of the Vanagons are like tose of all the VW's I
have owned where the year manufacture is most often the latter part of the
previous year. Mine is an '85, Manufacture date 10/84.

According to the Word Doc. I should have a Green wire in there for the tach
that runs to the coil correct? I can't remember if there was or not I will
check it out tonight. But if it is not there I could bypass to that terminal
and straight to the coil.

By the way the digital clock on the new cluster does work where the old one
did not.

The red wire to the clock on #5 was there, but trace it into the loom and it
disappears in to the abiss of the underdash wiring. It is supposed to end up
at the light switch terminal #30. There is also a bigger red wire to the
other #30 on the switch. I believe this goes to the fuse block and expect
the other end of the red I was looking for is connected there as well to
make the connection to the #30 via the bigger wire. Does this make sense?

Anybody know if this is correct?

Michael Knight
'77 Westy Deluxe, "el Verde"
'85 Vanagon GL, nameless

>From: "Mike Collum"

>I don't know if the attached word doccument will be of any help or not.  It
>addresses the wires at the 14 pin connector that the ribbon conductor plugs
>into.

>It is broken into 2 parts ... first for '83.5 and '84 models ... then for
>'85~'91 models.  It's really handy for installing a newer instrumant
>cluster
>into say an '84 in order to have a tach.

> > While on this subject, has anyone ever wired a factory tach from a later
> > model to an earlier model Vanagon.

> > Scenario: My '85 Instrument Cluster was crapped out, I installed a newer
> > one
> > from an '87. Tach no go, but previously the clock was a no go as well. I
> > am
> > still looking for that .5 Red Wire to the #5 on the multi connector that
> > is
> > shown in the Bently. This wire supposedly goes to one of the #30s on the
> > light switch. Same for the Tach, IIRC. Could this be the reason?

> > I guess I want to know almost the same question can this be bypassed?
>But
> > where is the signal sent from? I don't have the Bentley here at work
>with
> > me.