Try disconnecting the green/white from the coil again. If it makes no
difference to the oil gauge then I suspect you joggled something while you
were making sacrifices to MoWoG.
PaulH.
http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.hunt1/
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 30 June 1999 13:33
Subject: electrical success and mystery
>Hi ye knowledgeable ones in vaporland,
>
> I bought a '76B last May and in my ignorance (which was complete), I
>hadn't noticed the tach did not work. Just too excited I guess about my 1st
>real toy car (my '63 Rambler does not count-a gift from my father that
>lived for 3 months).
>
> Anyway, I've done a few things since then and decided to retackle the
>tach. After much scratching of my fat hand, I managed to remove it from the
>dash and it seemed alright. All 3 connections were intact. The spark I
>inadvertantly generated from 2 of the connectors indicated power.
> Ergo...something must be wrong with the tach. OK, I'm all prepared to send
>it to Nisonger's on LI (nice guy I talked with who told me Mo
>Ma-recommended by the list 2 out of 2 respondants- used to work there
>before moving to New Mexico) when I had to pick up my SO's car from my
>friendly mechanic. While talking with him about the tach, he noted that
>there should be 2 different voltages when the car is on. Had I checked
both?
>
> Oops...ignorance showing. I found one of the connectors was electrically
>non-existent. Voila. Traced the white-green wire back under the hood and
>you know, the connector end had been electrically taped to a dead end. Not
>connected..nothing. Followed the circuit diagram and found that it should
>have been connected at the negative pole of the coil. A nice plug was
>positioned on that tap...empty. And there was no stretch space left in the
>white-green wire.
>SO I whipped up a jumper, powered up the car, and the tach worked great
>(although I have no idea about its accuracy).
>
> The sense of satisfaction!
>
> BUT THAT is not my mystery. Now that the tach work, why did I gain
>approximately 20% of the value of my oil gauge? What had been reading 45 or
>so is now over 55? The ground to the tach had been connected so that
>cannot be the source of voltage? drain off the oil gauge.
>
> Any ideas???
>
>
>Bill
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>Department of Biology FAX (609) 225-6312
>Science Building email: saidel@crab.rutgers.edu
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>Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
>Camden, NJ 08102 -1411
>http://crab.rutgers.edu/~saidel/saidel.html
>
>
>"Between the approximation of the idea and the precision
>of reality, there is a small gap of the unimaginable."
>Milan Kundera - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
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