renagade_rotary

a wire that goes tro my tach when i follow a yellow wire out of the firewall up to a little black box and then i follow each wire out from the box i then reach a red wire and what looks like it has been cut ans stripped and just wrapped up and its not connected.....wtf

theres also a black wire that goes to a dead end

Hades12

pics?

renagade_rotary

yeah
just put them up

renagade_rotary

any ideas
sorta standin over the wires right now

Dan_s_young

iTrader: (1)

its wierd how it just ends...

renagade_rotary

what the wire?

Hades12

The relay it connects to is not stock. I would bet on it haveing run Fog lights.

renagade_rotary

yes
it had fog lights

renagade_rotary

any input would be AWESOME.....

gsl-se addict

iTrader: (3)

Yeah, that is not stock wiring or relay. I would bet it is for fog lights as Hades said. If you are not going to use fog lights, I would go ahead and just take it out. Save the relay though. It may come in handy sometime in the future.

renagade_rotary

but what about my tach

lovintha7

check your trailing coil....that's where the tach signal wire is hooked up......going to jillian's tomorrow?

renagade_rotary

i dont think i am....im gettin my turbo engine tommorow and i was gunna spend tommorow cleanin up around the house and cleanin the engine before i put it in

lovintha7

i hear ya.....do you have a factory service manual to follow the correct wire from the tach to the coil?

renagade_rotary

i was looking but i couldnt find the wire

gsl-se addict

iTrader: (3)

Is this an aftermarket tach or the stock one? For stock, the both coil (+) terminals should have a black wire with a white stripe. The stock tach gets its signal from the negative terminal on the trailing coil (yellow wire/ green stripe). Should be the coil closest to the front of the car. If it is hooked up, but the tach is still not working, check to see if you have spark on the trailing coils (either with a timing light, or pull a plug wire put next to the chassis and crank the engine over and look for spark. If spark is present, the problem is either the wiring or the tach itself. If no spark is present, it is probably a bad trailing igniter (on the dizzy closest to the alt). Also make sure that the plug to the igniter is secure.

Kent

smnc

That relay is the stock location for dealer installed foglights...
It should have a wire running though the firewall to a switch in your dash...

renagade_rotary

so thats what the silver switch is


aiight im workin on my t2 motor right now but ill check the coils later

smnc

The stock swich should be a nice orange pull-out dealie... But there's a good chance it's been replaced at some point...