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Subject:Re: Battery Light
From:mark drillock
Date:Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:05:52 -0800

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
>