Re: [Amc-list] most expensive piece of crap led on the planet

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Mean't to add on that last one.
Ain't it grand when you spend hours wiring the thing up, then a year later you want to do something, you can't remember what you did, where you put your notes, you have to dig out the tsm and start over!!!
  I must be getting old! I used ot tear down cars for a repair, let them sit for weeks waiting on parts and still NEVER had to look at another car to put it back together. I just "knew" how things went. It "felt" right.
   Now 20 years later, it's a different story. Youth is indeed "wasted on the young".

:]

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

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From: Kelly Hardie <keleigh3000@xxxxxxxxx>
> Hmmm, I wonder if that explains the strange behavior of the tach in my 
> Eagle. Ever since I installed the 4.0 and Renix, it's behaved strangely, 
> especially at low speeds. A few weeks ago, the tach died altogether, 
> freezing at 3000rpm. The fuel gauge was acting strangely as well, 
> jumping around like Earls friend Catalina, so I swapped in a spare 
> cluster I got a while back at the u pick em. The gas needle stabilized, 
> but the tach is dead in that one too. Usually hangs straight down, 
> occasionally wiggling in response to rpm changes. Seems I gotta pore 
> over the diagrams and see if I can remember how I wired it...
> 
> Keleigh
> 
> Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I wired everything up plugged in the cluster and checked things out, the 
> D$#!ED blue led lit 4 times then stopped lighting!!! I surrender! I have a spare 
> red one. Red it is!!!
> > The second problem is I have to root thru my harness and find the negative 
> coil wire as the ecu feed for the factory tach is only 5 volt feed and causes 
> flutter at low rpms on the Autometer tach. I was warned this may occur, but it 
> still sucks. 
> > Gas gauge works! Voltmeter works! led dash lights work! Still need to swap in 
> the oil and temp senders. VSS is in place, but I didn't drive it yet. Speedo did 
> it's self check OK.
> >   I had to give up for one day, my back and shoulder still will only take so 
> much!
> > Let this be a warning to efi swap guys! Don't use the tach feed from the 91-95 
> ecu to drive a Sport Comp tach! If you do you will  get needle flutter below 
> 2000 rpm. You need to use the coils neg terminal feed.....
> >   Are we having fun yet???......
> > Actually it's not too bad. My Ultrcet will kick in in another half hour or so 
> and I'm getting there!
> > With any luck tomorrow will get me either there or so close it won't matter!
> >
> > --
> > Mark Price
> > Morgantown, WV
> > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
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