Date:         Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:25:37 -0500
Reply-To:     Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Battery Light
Comments: To: mark drillock <drillock@earthlink.net>
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Just to clarify it is a stock 1986 2.1L syncro (well OK the ENGINE is stock).

I had another look at the wires. The "tan" or "white" or whatever
color wire it is definately goes to the power steering pump. It
obviously goes to a plastic connector that connects to a spade on the
back of the power steering pump. Which actually brings up another
problem. The wired is broken off right at the connector are these
things available? Or should I just replace it with a conventional
spade connector... will a conventional spade connector fit?

Now for the blue wire, its pretty light gauge and I still can't figure
out where it attaches to the alternator.

Thanks for everyone's help so far...

Chris

On 12/17/05, mark drillock <drillock@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
> >
>