[V8] Coolant Gauge wackyness***Now IC board wackyness***

[Ron Wainwright]

I mean that the 5spd VS the Auto tach's are physiclly
the same...but they are "wound" different.
 Example.......I put Urs4 White gauge faces on my ol
Pearl Auto beast (5spd) & the speedo read about 10
miles faster than I was actually going & the tach was
off. When I had the regular gauge faces on the Pearl
Auto....& my recollection is foggy since I don't have
anymore Auto V8's....only 5spd's :-) but,
the tach didn't read what it was supposed to while I
was cruising at 80mph. The tach was supposed to be
sitting near 4Grand..well with the White faces in
while cruising at 70 (which was actually 80MPH), the
tach was at or around 5Grand.

 Ron

--- Tony and Lillie <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> What do you mean "the tach is guaged for a 5-speed"
> ?
> 
> Tony
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Wainwright" <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
> To: "urq" <urq at pacbell.net>
> Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [V8] Coolant Gauge wackyness***Now IC
> board wackyness***
> 
> 
> I just did this Steve & found the same "accordian
> flexprint". I used the board & White cover from the
> AT
> cluster.
>  Of course I still used the Tach & speedo from the
> 5spd cluster cause the Tach is guaged for a 5spd...&
> well, the original speedo has the original miles on
> it.
> 
>  Very easy 1/2hr to R&R..& of course I missed one of
> the bulbs that lights the closk, so I'm glad I
> didn't
> bolt the dash pad back on till I knew everything was
> working as it should....& it is now.
> 
>  Ron
> 
> --- urq <urq at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > ... well, I opened up that 5-speed instrument
> > cluster to try to reverse
> > engineer the coolant gauge circuit.  For some
> reason
> > the boards inside were
> > interconnected with accordion shaped lengths of
> > flexprint.  I didn't think
> > much about it until last night.  Sure enough, the
> > part number is 441 919 930
> > AX ... which means it had been rebuilt.  Looks
> like
> > VDO has adopted a fix to
> > eliminate those internal connectors which are so
> > prone to becoming flaky ...
> >
> >
> > While it is great to know that I'll be eliminating
> > the flaky connections
> > when I swap the IC in, it does make reverse
> > engineering the circuit board
> > that drives the coolant gauge impossible without
> > unsoldering it ... which is
> > not something I want to do only in the interest of
> > science.  I have another
> > AT cluster in the garage ... looks like I'll need
> to
> > go there for the
> > circuit board ...
> >
> > Steve B
> > San José, CA (USA)
> >
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