I must be getting less impatient, too.  Because I am going to do just that,
Scott...now that I have started to 'get' what is what in the cluster...and I
detect some anomolies in the wire numbers that I don't quite understand
yet...I am going to do a little more 'backhanded' testing rather than end up
with a non-working instrument cluster because I want to "finish, right
now...I am almost done.."
  Don Hanson

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> all right, you're getting it .
>
> re
> "Remove wire 9 and re-insert it into
> position 8..take 8 and move it.."
>
> Personally I would only do that after figuring out what wire 9 does, what 8
> does etc, so that I am swapping wires 'intelligently' rather than following
> with blind faith.
> no fun to fry things after all.  Once you see that puff of smoke, it's too
> late then of course, most of the time anyway.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Electrical question (Coil terminals)
>
>
>
> Ok, thanks guys, I found the right signal.  The thing I keyed off was Neils
>> pic with two wires coming from one terminal and only one from the other. I
>> stuck my to be mounted tach cluster back there and used a test light from
>> the neg coil terminal and Voila!...the tach needle moves when I get the
>> probe onto position #8 of my 14 plug foil....
>>  So now it's just a matter of stringing that wire up to the front and
>> swapping all the wire to the appropriate positions in the 'revised'
>> connection between my 84 and the whatever year foil I have now...according
>> to the instructions I got off Old Volks write up...It may actually work..
>>  Scott, your post just came up and that is the way I get the signal...from
>> the wire that shows no current with key on, motor off.
>>  Wish me luck when I start doing the "Remove wire 9 and re-insert it into
>> position 8..take 8 and move it......."  If this all works, I will be
>> really
>> surprised..but I am recording every step so I can go back to crappy clock
>> if
>> I don't fry the whole van..
>>  Thanks all,
>> Don Hanson
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
>>
>