T_Vert

guys where exactly is this harness that has these white wires in it? The pics wont work for me and all of my harnesses are covered in tape. Id hate to have to remove all the tape to find the right harness.

Thanks
dave

T_Vert

NM I found it
thanks
dave

Bill Curlee

The pics will NOT work for me either! Whats up with that?

What do I need to do to be able to view the picctures????

Bill Curlee

Mike Mercury

I need the pics. Can you email them to me?

tim-yvonne@juno.com

Bill Curlee

PLEASE include me in that request for the pics!! bill327@msn.com
I will be ordering a shift light one day soon

What are some of the better shift lights out there??

Thanks

Bill Curlee

bill327@msn.com

Flyin'Brian

You can find some of the pic's here

Flyin'Brian

You can find some of the pic's here

Cscokd

I just wired mine up this last weekend following Brian's lead. I found the tach (white) wire by using a safety pin to make momentary contact and watching the Raptor activity (set it at 1500 rpm for test purposes). I connected my red (power lead) up to the pink wire in that same bundle which is the 12V on/start ignition voltage to the instrument cluster. If you use a different 12V source that is always hot as some have suggested, you can't change your Raptor settings because it ignores switch setting changes until a power cycle. At least that's how mine worked. I picked up ground at the grounding block just inside the left kick panel. All clean and works great. Be sure to use some tiewraps to tidy things up before you close it all up. I can't stand rattles Thanks Brian for all the help.
John

2 GTOs

I tried to use a test light with the ignition on, engine off. 1 lie lit the text light , the others did not. No movement on the dash. Then I started the engine and checked voltage. 1 had 13, 1 had zero, 1 had like 5-6 v. Is the last one the tach?

yakisoba

I have an observation and a question:

Observation: One of the three white wires is more towards the outside of the sheaf than the others. It looks to me like that causes the discoloration in that wire. It may be that is always the tach wire since all of these harnesses are the same (mostly).

Question: What do you ground your probe to in the cockpit?

VGLNTE1

Ya...where do you put the other 2 wires?

2 GTOs

Other 2 wires? You just tap into the white tach wire. You leave the other 2 wires alone.

chuckster

Great Tip!!! I plan to use this when I install my Shift Light.. I have an Autometer Shift-Lite.

I was dreading going to the PCM..

bumble-z

Flyin' Brian, thanks for taking the time to help all of us here on the forum in regards to making it so much easier, finding the tach wire for installing our
shift lights!

I found your thread a few years ago when doing the shift light install.

yakisoba, in regards to finding a ground inside the cockpit.
There are places (steel) to ground to, right where the tach wire lives.
Thanks again Flyin' Brian.

Here is where I ended up installing my shift light.
Pretty much unnoticable with the dust cover on.

VGLNTE1

ya, the red and black wire for power and ground. Those still need connected yes?

also, how do you tie in the green wire the white tach wire? Im an electrical noob. Can i just peel back the white shealth and wrap the green wire around it and electrical tape it?

chuckster

Use one of these from Radio Shack.. IT just squeezes over the white wire and then piggy backs the Green wire.. The picture shows a Black Wire being tapped and the Red Wire being added.. But you get the point.. NO Cutting or Soldering involved.



Wire Tap-In Squeeze Connectors (10-Pack)Model: 64-3052 | Catalog #: 64-3052

VGLNTE1

Thank you!

VGLNTE1

Ok, new problem. Have the light hooked up. Led's flash like they should. Have it set to 3100 to test it and i know i have the right tach wire because i cut it in half. Lol. And the light wont flash when i hit that rpm. Thoughts?

RX-Ben

fwiw, it is really easy to pick from the pcm. You might be hunting for a while to find the correct white wire and not find it (my experience).

bumble-z

I found it easily on my 03 Z, by following Fly-n -Brian's pictured write up.