I have power to b+ no power at IG. Still can't get nothing to come on dash.

 

it doesnt matter if it's on or off, it's not connected to your car's wiring whatsoever.

 

IG- should be grounded.

spacing out

 

if IG- is grounded the tach will never work.

 

I'm gonna pull the cluster tomorrow and make sure I'm getting voltage to the gauge. It decided to rain 40ft down here in East Tennessee band my tops leaking. :/

 

The IG- pin in the diagnostic connector goes directly to the dash. Do all your tests on that.


When the car is running, and multimeter in diode test mode, you can put teh black lead to GND and red lead to IG- and it should rapidly beep at you.

If its a solid tone, then the ignitor has most likely been damaged.

 

So I'm having this problem with a 96 (3 wire coils), using a 94-95 mspnp2, re pinned to follow 94-95 wiring. Don't ask.

But we have no tach. Would the resistor trick work for this situAtion? Or is a 1.6 thing only?

 

no, it wont work for 3 wire coils.

you should have repinned your '96 from 4L to 2I and then use the MS tachout.


Tach is the Black/White wire. Even 90-94 wires has the b/w wire and use can use tachout on it, but you have to modify the engine bay harness to connect to the dash, where it would have done that in the ignitor to the yellow/blue wire.

 

Thanks brain I'm gonna try everything tomorrow after work. I'll report what I find!

 

Ok brain. I checked my coil it's a 3 white coil since I'm still useing the 1.6 electronics. Is it still the same?

 

Yes. The resistor trick still works.

 

The ignitor is techincally what's providing the tach signal -- it's sending a pulse to the tach everytime it tells coil 1 or 2 to fire.

 

I thought it was when it fired 3 or 4?

 

Ok I'm getting a solid tone out of the Ig. I swapped igniters and still the same. I'm so confused.

 

There's only 2 coils.

Each time coil 1 or coil 2 fires, that's a signal. It fires each coil twice a cycle.

 

even when the car is running?

 

 

Yep it's a solid tone. Either way I try it while running. Now i just remembered when I installed the coil packs I reversed the ignition wire signals so I could use the regular spark plug wire order. Could this be a issue?

 

If you fucked up switching the wires, yes.

 

Well **** lol I feel stupid. I'll swap them back and try everything again.