Re: BTDT and need advice.

[Chris Newbold <cnewbold@transarc.com>]

Todd Young wrote:

> Now for the advice part. Since I put the cluster back in, the "battery"
> light stays on upon initial start up, until I rev the engine. Sometimes
> the "coolant" light flashes, until I rev the engine. The weird thing
> about the "battery" light, is that it has it's own pair of wires running
> to a bulb socket that just hooks into the cluster, so why would pulling
> the cluster affect it? I tried resetting the computer, it didn't change
> anything.

I think that "dangling" bulb is the air bag light... I think you'll find
that revving the engine doesn't have any effect; it just takes about
10 seconds for the light to go off on it's own.

When I pulled my cluster, I found three wiring harness connections: two
multi-wire/multi-pin connectors and a bulb on the end of a pair of wires.
That was the air bag warning lamp.

All of the other warning lamps are wired through the PCB in the cluster
and are driven by the multi-wire connectors.

I'm guessing that they must have had a pile of these clusters laying around
without integrated air bag light support, so they just "hacked" it. Hopefully,
later models would have this fully integrated. Anyone with a '94 or '95 had
a look at their cluster?

-Chris
1993 90CS 70k miles