Sure, but the last I heard Chris has a Syncro. Those are 2.1. Maybe he can tell us what year he is working, as everyone always should when they post about technical issues. Mark Mike Collum wrote: > On my '85 1.9 (Digijet)... one of the wires from the pressure switch on > the power steering pump goes to ground and is attached to one of the > "Through" bolts on the alternator. > > Mike > > > mark drillock wrote: > >> Don't connect either PS switch lead to ground. That is not how it works, >> at least not on 2.1 models. Doing that could short out the power lead >> from the ECU relay. The way the PS switch works is it has one lead that >> gets power from the ECU relay whenever the key is on and the other lead >> sends a signal to the ICU relay. Neither lead is ground. There is no tan >> or brown wire to the PS switch in any case. They may look tan from dirt >> and age but early years had 2 white wires while later years had wires >> with stripes. >> >> Mark > |
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