Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 19:06:46 -0700
Reply-To: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: Different Speedo - circuit board?
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You have more than one problem going on.
That little board in the speedo is for the dynamic dual oil pressure
system that all 2.1 engine Vanagons have. Without the board installed
and hooked up to the foil, you will not have proper oil warning light
and buzzer operation. You must have bought an 84/85 foil built for 1.9
engines. The oil light will work but only based on the low rpm oil
pressure switch. I could live with that but some would object.
The tach face cutout fits a smaller temp gauge so you must be using the
one that came with the tach. This version is failure prone and the
common failure is that the led will blink all the time due to a bad
electronic part inside the gauge. You will need to replace the bad temp
gauge.
The other indicators should work and maybe reseating the 14 pin
connector will help. If not, look very closely at the foil surface where
the 14 pin connector plugs on. It is common for some of the 14 little
copper contacts to peel off and not work. You may have to trash the foil
and try another one if this area has damage.
Mark
Hans Roos wrote:
>
> Hi All, I am in the process of switching my speedo from the instrument
> cluster that I had with a clock in it to one that I bought that has a tach
> in it. I need to swap the speedo as I have a syncro and the cluster I
> bought is from a 2wd so the speedos are not interchangable.
>
> I noticed that the mt speedo has a circuit board and the appropriate plug in
> the foil cable while the speedo that I am replacing does not have the board
> hance the foil does not have the plug. What does the board do?
>
> I went ahead and plugged everything in and most things work just fine. The
> tach came to life without needing any wiring - YEA! It does popup on start
> and then appears to behave fine. The guages work fine except that the
> blinking LED does not stop blinking. The other thing I've noticed is no OXY
> light and the high beam indicator does not work. Can all of this be related
> to the board? Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Hans
