Now THAT helps one heck of a lot - thanks. Since he got himself into
a bind (long trip, waited until the last minute to do the work) I get
to "rescue" him tomorrow afternoon. Now that I have the wire color, I
can fight the access problem. That @#$% coil is down on the side of
the block under the a/c and it is one flaming bitch to reach so maybe
I can tag the wire a little further up in the loom. I miss the days
when I could crawl into the engine bay to work and everything was in
plain sight!

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:50:22 UTC philthy <dbrider@cac.net> wrote:

> may be to late but the tach wire is black /w a gray at coil
>
> DougW wrote:
>
> > Will Honea did pass the time by typing:
> > > My son brought his 91 XJ (4.0 l) over this afternoon for "a little
> > > help" installing an after market cruise control. I showed him the
> > > gargage and went back to my coffee. By supper time, he was to the
> > > point of needing to hook up 2 wires: the tach and/or the tach/VSS.
> > > The '91 has the electric speed sensor on the tranny but he also needs
> > > the tach input. Anybody got a quick pointer to the location and/or
> > > the wire colors for these two connections? He was getting ready to
> > > hook in to the coil for a tach connection but there has to be a better
> > > spot (as well as one that a normal human can reach).
> >
> > Tough call. Might try hitting up the folks at Autometer.
>


--
Will Honea

 

Now THAT helps one heck of a lot - thanks. Since he got himself into
a bind (long trip, waited until the last minute to do the work) I get
to "rescue" him tomorrow afternoon. Now that I have the wire color, I
can fight the access problem. That @#$% coil is down on the side of
the block under the a/c and it is one flaming bitch to reach so maybe
I can tag the wire a little further up in the loom. I miss the days
when I could crawl into the engine bay to work and everything was in
plain sight!

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:50:22 UTC philthy <dbrider@cac.net> wrote:

> may be to late but the tach wire is black /w a gray at coil
>
> DougW wrote:
>
> > Will Honea did pass the time by typing:
> > > My son brought his 91 XJ (4.0 l) over this afternoon for "a little
> > > help" installing an after market cruise control. I showed him the
> > > gargage and went back to my coffee. By supper time, he was to the
> > > point of needing to hook up 2 wires: the tach and/or the tach/VSS.
> > > The '91 has the electric speed sensor on the tranny but he also needs
> > > the tach input. Anybody got a quick pointer to the location and/or
> > > the wire colors for these two connections? He was getting ready to
> > > hook in to the coil for a tach connection but there has to be a better
> > > spot (as well as one that a normal human can reach).
> >
> > Tough call. Might try hitting up the folks at Autometer.
>


--
Will Honea

 

Now THAT helps one heck of a lot - thanks. Since he got himself into
a bind (long trip, waited until the last minute to do the work) I get
to "rescue" him tomorrow afternoon. Now that I have the wire color, I
can fight the access problem. That @#$% coil is down on the side of
the block under the a/c and it is one flaming bitch to reach so maybe
I can tag the wire a little further up in the loom. I miss the days
when I could crawl into the engine bay to work and everything was in
plain sight!

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:50:22 UTC philthy <dbrider@cac.net> wrote:

> may be to late but the tach wire is black /w a gray at coil
>
> DougW wrote:
>
> > Will Honea did pass the time by typing:
> > > My son brought his 91 XJ (4.0 l) over this afternoon for "a little
> > > help" installing an after market cruise control. I showed him the
> > > gargage and went back to my coffee. By supper time, he was to the
> > > point of needing to hook up 2 wires: the tach and/or the tach/VSS.
> > > The '91 has the electric speed sensor on the tranny but he also needs
> > > the tach input. Anybody got a quick pointer to the location and/or
> > > the wire colors for these two connections? He was getting ready to
> > > hook in to the coil for a tach connection but there has to be a better
> > > spot (as well as one that a normal human can reach).
> >
> > Tough call. Might try hitting up the folks at Autometer.
>


--
Will Honea