Sure, I know why. The same foil blank was designed as able to be used
for single oil pressure switch models and dual oil switch dynamic
models. When the final assembly of the foil is done, only single oil
pressure switch models get that resistor. The resistor connects the
single oil switch wire of the 14 pin connector directly to the oil
warning led. On dynamic dual clusters the 2 switch wires of the 14 pin
go to the dynamic oil pressure board connector and the output of that
board goes to the oil pressure warning led. The resistor bypasses that
circuit board connector for single oil switch vans.

In the US only 86+ with 2.1 got the dual oil switches.

Mark

pickle vanagon wrote:
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> Anyone know why my foil has a place for a resistor in the resistor bank
> where there's no resistor (and so no connection?)  It appears to be stock
> like this.  I looked at ads for foils and found others with the same
> configuration.
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