

| Subject: | Wiring tach triggered oil pressure alarm - more info |
| From: | Sam Walters |
| Date: | Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:00:24 -0400 |
Some more info on this: Memory triggered by Ken Lewis' response, I went digging around on my hard drive for some info I had clipped from archive searches and emails I got last fall when I asked about this. The 86+ clusters have high rpm and low rpm oil pressure alarms and sensor. The 85 and below engines, 1.9l, do not have hi and low rpm senders, only low. [This may only be approximately correct technically.] I think the high rpm oil pressure sensor on the 87 panel is looking for something from the high rpm sender and getting nothing and hence sounding off. [Apologies to Mark Drillock if I am butchering what you posted.] I thought from what I read that I could just wire this up to the green wire and be OK, just that I was not getting any high rpm pressure alarm capacity. But that must be wrong, or maybe I put the connection between the wire from the coil and the cluster wiring in too early. I hooked it into a 4 wire connector right behind the fuse panel that has the green wire from the tach that is before the green wire in the 14 wire connector. Would the place in the tach wire trail where I put in the "juice" impact this problem? So, I guess the question is how to ground the circuit and shut the thing up. Or change the location of the signal from the coil and bypass that oil pressure circuit? Thanks again. Sam -- Sam Walters Baltimore, MD 89 Syncro GL 85 Westy Weekender 84 Vanagon, original owner, soon to be retired, just too many problems All incoming and outgoing email scanned by automatically updated copy of Norton AntiVirus.
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