Tach Wire & neutral safety switch
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Tach Wire & neutral safety switch
Just ordered my valet 554r today, and i have two connections left to figure out before i receive it.
Where is the best place to find & connect to my tach wire in a 93 bonneville.
How do i setup the neutral safety switch input?
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Where is the best place to find & connect to my tach wire in a 93 bonneville.
How do i setup the neutral safety switch input?
thanks
Randy
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Not sure about the tach but the neutral safety switch is fairly easy to find. Pop the hood and look under your intake, there on top of your transmission should be a bundle of wires. There should be two looms, one large and one single wire. The one wire is your neutral safety switch. It goes from your trans to your starter. You can either splice into it somewhere along the way or disconnect the Neg terminal on the battery and remove the nut holding it to your starter, put whatever wire you need on it, and replace the nut. Dunno how helpful that is
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and a 554r is...?
Usually aftermarket tach'* have an induction wire. In this case, they usually get wrapped tightly around the #1 plug wire. Thats where the wire for my remote starter is (the one that tells it if the car started)
Usually aftermarket tach'* have an induction wire. In this case, they usually get wrapped tightly around the #1 plug wire. Thats where the wire for my remote starter is (the one that tells it if the car started)
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Re: Tach Wire & neutral safety switch
Originally Posted by randy
Just ordered my valet 554r today, and i have two connections left to figure out before i receive it.
Where is the best place to find & connect to my tach wire in a 93 bonneville.
Where is the best place to find & connect to my tach wire in a 93 bonneville.
If you search the archives for postings with the Subject of "Dashboard Diary Chapter" 1 through 6 you should find my adventures in installing a remote starter, including the tach connections.
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How do i setup the neutral safety switch input?
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Re: Tach Wire & neutral safety switch
Previously I wrote:
Forget the search; here'* Chapter 5:
http://www.bonnevilleclub.com/forum/...pic.php?t=3849
If you search the archives for postings with the Subject of "Dashboard Diary Chapter" 1 through 6 you should find my adventures in installing a remote starter, including the tach connections.
http://www.bonnevilleclub.com/forum/...pic.php?t=3849
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Thank you everyone for your posts. I just got the remote start today and will be installing it probably next week.
I could get away without the neutral safety, but i dont want any potential dangerous mishaps. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong .
the 554r is DEI'* 2 way paging alarm/remote start system. Before this one, it was the Hornet 554t, now it is valet 554r. From what i understand they change brand names around so that competitors in the same town can have access to all of their different types of remote start.
Again, thank you very much for all your help, and i will let everyone know how it goes. Im sure ill be back with more questions soon.
Randy
I could get away without the neutral safety, but i dont want any potential dangerous mishaps. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong .
the 554r is DEI'* 2 way paging alarm/remote start system. Before this one, it was the Hornet 554t, now it is valet 554r. From what i understand they change brand names around so that competitors in the same town can have access to all of their different types of remote start.
Again, thank you very much for all your help, and i will let everyone know how it goes. Im sure ill be back with more questions soon.
Randy
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I kinda figured you were talking about a remote start. My remote starter has a "tach wire" wrapped around the number one spark plug wire (wrapped really tight and then zip tied) to let it know if the engine is actually running.
To use it, the car should be in park, so neutral lockout shouldn't be necessary, should it? When in doubt, tho, RTFM.
To use it, the car should be in park, so neutral lockout shouldn't be necessary, should it? When in doubt, tho, RTFM.
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I kinda figured you were talking about a remote start. My remote starter has a "tach wire" wrapped around the number one spark plug wire (wrapped really tight and then zip tied) to let it know if the engine is actually running.
To use it, the car should be in park, so neutral lockout shouldn't be necessary, should it? When in doubt, tho, RTFM.
So unless this is a radically different design of remote starter, I'm not sure you'd need that Neutral interlock connection anyway. Tell us what the instructions say about that when you get it.
Hey, maybe it'* for _manual_ transmissions...? My Dad wanted me to install a remote starter on his BMW, except that it'* a 5-speed manual, which he always leaves parked in 1st gear. "Dad, I can't put one in your car. If you pressed the button in your kitchen, the car would drive up the back yard to meet you..."
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Originally Posted by acg_ssei
If you pressed the button in your kitchen, the car would drive up the back yard to meet you..."
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Originally Posted by MOS95B
Originally Posted by acg_ssei
If you pressed the button in your kitchen, the car would drive up the back yard to meet you..."
"Won't need your arms won't need your legs, you won't choose the things to do, some machine'* doin' that for you!!"
Yep, our appendages are going to shrivel up!!!