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Old 15-05-2007, 07:41 PM   #1
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Default Coil trigger wire

hey guys just wondering if anyone could tell me where abouts i would find the coil triger wire in a series 2 xr6 ute, its also manual if that makes a difference.
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Old 15-05-2007, 07:57 PM   #2
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what do you mean by coil trigger wire ? there are 3 of them because it's coil pack ignition or do you mean the tacho feed which has the coil pulses?
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Old 15-05-2007, 08:06 PM   #3
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i was told to wire up this shift light i have to the coil triger wire, but all i could find is the 3 of them as well, i thought there might have been another wire i was missing or couldnt find. Do u think that wiring up a shift light to work off one of the coil triger wires would still work?
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ok you need pin 45 on the ecu to get the clean tacho output so you don't even have to go through the firewall just to the left hand side of the dash
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what sort of shift light cause i fitted a gizmo one to my car
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you can get a ignition signal from behind your instrument cluster
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what sort of shift light cause i fitted a gizmo one to my car
Yeh im trying to wire up a gizzmo dual stage shift light, where did u connect the wires to?
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you can get a ignition signal from behind your instrument cluster
i have tried that wire from behind the cluster but it didnt work properly with the shift light, was getting to much feed bak and the light would not stop flashing
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i have tried that wire from behind the cluster but it didnt work properly with the shift light, was getting to much feed bak and the light would not stop flashing
that is because you need the clean tacho signal at pin 45 on the ECU not the one at the cluster which is a composite signal with other data superimposed and will give you nothing but trouble
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Old 16-05-2007, 12:43 PM   #10
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well i've hooked up a tacho to behind the cluster and had no problems with it giving false readings. It is the pink wire going to the cluster.

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well i've hooked up a tacho to behind the cluster and had no problems with it giving false readings. It is the pink wire going to the cluster.

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depending on the tacho you can have dramas this way the correct method is pin 45 on the ecu this wire is specifically there for connecting a tacho it is called the "clean tacho output " by ford
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Old 16-05-2007, 06:18 PM   #12
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thanks for all your help guys, had another go at it today and finially got it to work properly, ended up using the wires that go into the instrument cluster. Thanks again, will post a couple of photos if you guys wanted to see it
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