On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

> � If you are 1/2 as easily frustrated as I am by obscure electrical
> circuitry,� and you might find marginally better things to do with yourself
> than fiddle-de- fark around with teenie little wires and multiple pages of
> obscure manuals...

Never. Besides. Fiddling around is (I think) improving my skills at
reading diagrams etc.    <grin>

The other part of the equation is that if there was some other guy
doing an ABA with donor car in hand, and wanted to save $ he could
take advantage of what I post, and use his Mk3 tach. Caveat: even if
the faceplate is the same size, there isn't any room on it for the WBX
temp gauge. I see a 1" plywood housing in my future.     ;)     That
kidding aside, part of what I try to do is think of ways donor parts
can be used in the swap. i.e. I found that if you cut out the MAF
flange on the Jetta air box, and use it along with the internal piece
of plastic pipe mit der clips, that pipe slips nice and snug over the
outlet of a Dodge Caravan air box.

pics: http://tinyurl.com/42mdws5     http://tinyurl.com/3w9q89j   But
I've digressed.

> �I think the one I have mounted in my 84 with Jetta motor was under $30 and
> connected up in about one minute..to the coil wire, of course.

> � I mounted my tach in the cluster area where some vans have a digital
> clock, just on top of the steering column.  ....  The Cheapo Equis tach works just fine, has for
> over a year now..
>

Good to know. It actually fits in the cluster face below idiot lights?
I wondered if one couldn't fit a small tach there.

What model Equis?

-- 
Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

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