Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:58:22 -0800
Reply-To: mdrillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
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From: mdrillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Dash electrics: something's wrong, but what?
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This sounds like a challenge and I like a challenge.
First let's fix the Turn Signal indicator. It has almost nothing in
common with the other issues you report so don't worry about them yet.
If you still have an extra cluster it is a simple matter to test the
functioning of the TS indicator with a small 9 volt battery and a couple
wires
Connect the + of the 9 volt battery to pin 9 of the 14 pin edge
connector. Then briefly connect the - of the battery to pin 14 on the 14
pin connector. The TS led should light whenever these contacts are both
made. This will prove that the internals of the cluster can work wrt the
TS indicator. (pin numbers are for 80-84 analog clock cluster only)
To jump ahead, my guess is that the contacts for pin 14 are flattened
inside the white plastic wiring housing such that they don't contact the
blue foil. You can carefully bend more arc into them so they have more
contact pressure.
Mark
Jim Felder wrote:
> There's a chill in the air. Leaves have fallen and cover the ground.
> College football dominates weekend television. That means that it's
> time for me to ask again, as I do every year, what in the hell could
> be wrong with the wiring on my diesel westy?
>
> I don't think this is particularly a diesel westy question, so I am
> posting it to this list.
>
> For three or four years, my turn signal indicator on the dash does not
> work. It is the only thing on my 1983 diesel westy that does not work.
> The turn signals work but the dash indicator light does not blink. I
> have to listen for the relay clicking to determine if my turn signals
> are on. At the rate my hearing is deteriorating, I figure that I have
> about a year to solve this problem.
>
> I have three instrument clusters that I have rotated through the car.
> The TS indicator light does not work on any of them. I have tested the
> LED in all of them and they all work fine (I have removed the LEDs and
> have gotten them to illuminate). I have tested the resistors in the
> circuitry of all of them all they all tested OK. My clock runs fast
> about four minutes a day. When I start the car and the glow plugs are
> being warmed, the second hand on the clock runs about double-speed.
> All the grounds look good, and I have run an additional ground just in
> case.
>
> That's all the clues I have to offer. Anyone have any ideas? This is
> about to turn obsessive!
>
> Jim
>
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