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#18
07-25-2002, 04:54 PM
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Heres the rpm activated switch, which I guess is not made by vdo, but RPW. It came with a VDO set, but I bought it seprately at this place, racer parts wholesale Heres what it looks like, cheap?
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#19
07-25-2002, 05:54 PM
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The white thing: i cant really see where you mean by the broken connection, but you will be able to see if there is any way a current can pass through it. if there is no way a current can pass through the wires/electrical connection then that is probably you're problem.
Splicing: That should be fine to connect the wires. One thing i always do when connecting bare wires is to solder them to make sure they are well connected, but what you have done should be ok. Black box: If you think you may have short circuited then this box could have been damaged, but if thats not the case and you havent messed with its wires then i see no reason why that well be the cause of you're problem.
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#20
07-25-2002, 05:57 PM
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ooops, nearly forgot the rpm switch: as i said before VDO are a decent enough brand, so i dont see any reason why that is the cause of the problem providing it has been connected up properly.
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#21
07-25-2002, 06:46 PM
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first of all, thank you Pennzoil GT-R for being so quick and helpful to me.
-I guess I did cut the wire because I spliced it, I am reconnected now and the gauges are working, so Thats done, I dont have to worry about that. (Forget about the white thing and the black box) -Now the rpm switch. I called a local mechanic and he told me that I cant hook the tach up to the wire behind the gauge cluster because its different voltage. He said to run it to the to the distributer which was already suggested to me. I cant seem to get through the firewall with the coathanger(also suggested) even though I took off a grommet. It seems like its hitting something. I guesss I'll go down to him later so he can take a look at it. -One last thing, the rpm switch IS NOT made by VDO, I messed up earlier, its made by RPW and I think its exclusive to the company that I bought it from. You can check it out at the link I posted earlier.
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#22
07-26-2002, 02:55 AM
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I have an '00 Civic DX, but all the wiring is the exact same, as both your '98 and my '00 being 6th gen Civics. I have an Autometer tach in my xcar, and have the green RPM wire hooked to the tach/RPM blue wire on the back of my guage cluster, and it works perfectly fine there. And their IS places you can poke a wire through in the firewall, I know because I poked the 8 guage wire to my amp through it, no drilling, no problems.
 Just check around, run the wire through where existing wires go through the firewall if need be.
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#24
07-26-2002, 01:25 PM
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Its not working, I fed it through and hooked to the tach but still nothing. Maybe its my power wire, I attached it to the back of my accesory socket where there was a yellow wire and a black wire, I hooked it to the yellow, is this ok? Does power go down there?
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#26
07-26-2002, 03:50 PM
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Ok I used the test light and it worked. That leaves me with the shift light. I have the wire from the switch to the one side and the other side of the Led is attached to a ground, does this sound ok?
I also just realized the rpm switch tells me the light cant exceed 1 amp. Is a LED over the 1 amp limit?
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#27
07-26-2002, 07:01 PM
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I finally got the instructions faxed over that didnt come with the switch. There is something suprising me, I had one wire going to the LED and the second wire of the LED going to a ground. What they show is the second wire going to a +12v wire between the tach wire and the fuse box. Where is this wire?, it must be the final thing to correct.
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#28
07-28-2002, 05:39 AM
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Maybe your ignition wire? Try tapping it into a thick black wire with a yellow stripe on it, that's your main ignition wire.
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Silver '00 Civic EJ6 Coupe PureHonda original member since Feb. 2000 D-series revolution For pics of my baby, click here! All rights reserved... All BITERS served! "The last time you had THIS much fun driving a car, it cost a quarter, and gyrated in front of the supermarket." i have yet to see any well done imports around here. most are road toilets driven by some high school punk -Drift hessemer69 on AIM
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#29
07-28-2002, 12:40 PM
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silver, go here other thread I got a picture of the instructions up, see what you think.
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