On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Old Volks Home wrote:

> Yep - The one that powers the clock is "live" all da time - the one
> Tom
> doesn't have a need for apparently ;-)

Yep, if you don't end up w/ an extra wire or part after an install,
you are not hacking it enuf?

Tom B.-hasn't caught on fire or melted anything yet! grin      (knock
on wood!)

>
> Actually I can't call my switcheroo a complete success this
> weekend.  Still
> having a problem with the "Blinkin' Coolant Light Syndrome" that
> Mark I
> privately & briefly touched on earlier today.  It will either get
> solved or
> it won't be.  That's when I turn to a stick dyn-o-mite if my
> patience wears
> out. <big grin>
> --
> Jim Thompson
> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> 73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise"
> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> *See You At Buses By The Bridge XI*
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> On 1/2/07, Mark Drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> The simple way is to compare the wire colors in each hole of both
>> 14 pin
>> connectors. Move the wires on the clock dash model to the same
>> positions
>> as the tach model 14 pin connector. The connector opens up at the
>> wire
>> edge and the pins slide out and in. You will need to combine the 2
>> brown
>> wires onto one pin and place it where the tach dash has it. Then
>> use the
>> extra cut off brown wire stub and it's pin to connect a new long
>> green
>> wire back to the coil. Plug this spliced green/brown wire into the
>> hole
>> where the green wire is on the tach dash 14 pin connector.
>>
>> VW keeps the same color wires for the same functions on almost every
>> Vanagon. The position and such changes but the colors don't.
>>
>> Unhook the battery ground strap when doing the wire relocation.
>> One of
>> the wires is always live.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> > Date:    Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:28:32 -0500
>> > From:    Jonce Fancher <streetbugs@WHISPLLC.COM>
>> > Subject: Tach install from vanagon to vanagon
>> >
>> > Hi all
>> > Well I aquired a 84 wolfsberg vanagon and it has the stock tach
>> in the
>> dash
>> > pod. I will be parting out this vanagon and then off to the
>> crusher but
>> it
>> > has a tach that I want to know if it is just a straight swap to
>> my 84
>> GL. My
>> > vanagon has a standard Clock. Will the harness already have the
>> wiring
>> for
>> > the tach to work??
>> >
>> > Jonce Fancher
>>