Thanks Scott, that's what I needed to be reassured about. I knew that in a modern car it would matter if they had an EGR counter, 
so I wanted to make sure that I heard from more than one source before proceeding.

Peter

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Daniel - Shazam  <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
To: pyjme@AOL.COM
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 8:54 pm
Subject: RE: Speedo Cable question

That’s correct. 

It has zero function other
than just counting miles and turning on the light.  

Not hooked to the ECU in
any way or anything like that. 

 

Don’t’ know if
you know how ‘modern cars’ are……..

But in a modern car it
would definitely be tied into the computer somehow, like the computer would set
a code for not ‘seeing’ the counter box, but modern cars don’t
have speedo cables either. 

They don’t even
monitor miles, they monitor oxygen sensor and cat function, and set the Check
Engine Light accordingly. 

Scott

turbovans

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Peter
Young

Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 8:42 PM

To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

Subject: Speedo Cable question

 

So, I have an 81' and I am doing an instrument panel
swap so that I have a Tachometer. I have the instructions for that from Old
Volks Home, but what I want to know about is the speedo cable. The one in the
van now screws into the back of the speedo, but the new cluster has a push-in
type of connector. I want to know if I should buy the long replacement cable
that bypasses the EGR box, or if I should just buy the 86-91 EGR to speedo
upper cable. At BusDepot.com it would be cheaper just to buy the bypass cable
than to buy the upper. What would happen if I bypassed the box? Bus Depot says
it just means that the EGR light won't come on at the scheduled intervals,
nothing else.

 

 

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