Well, by golly....
I went back at it this morning and finally got it installed correctly.
Here are some points to consider.
1. LS1's instructions are wonderful and work well up to a point.
What I found was that the square plastic connector you have
to deal with by using a paper clip to spring the contacts out
is VERY easy to screw up, it took many tries to release the
connectors and in one case I buggered it up so bad it will
never work again, the plastic is VERY soft and easily distorted.
2. Using LS1's method in regards to the connector puts all the
contacts within close proximity and the chance of a short (I
am almost sure happened in my case) or an insufficient ground
(again almost sure this was the case in my installation)
3. By reading this url:
http://www.sonofthewind.net/Son%20Of...n%20Manual.pdf
You will get a good idea of how it goes. I liked these directions
with the pictures from bonnevillebilly:
http://www.triumphrat.net/triumph-tw...it-wiring.html
The best thing about bonnybilly's install was clipping the red
wire at the connector and attaching the green wire from the
tach to that. If you don't have shrink tubing, cut a large gauge
#10 wire (hint: use #10 or 14 house wire), and pull the
wire out of the insulator and pull that piece over the green
wire and solder, then pull the insulator over the joint, wrap with
tape and you are good to go. This is the method I used the
second time around.
What I didn't like about billys installation was soldering directly
to the parking light black connector. It looked like he had melted
the plastic to access the connectors. It is much neater to use
this method:
http://www.triumphrat.net/memberalbu...t/ppuser/11993
To identify the parking light leads positive and negative then
strip back and solder the red/blue leads to positive and the black
ground wire to the negative and wrap with black electric tape.
And yes, the parking light is on at all times when engine is
running.
4. I did use LS1's method of installing the three way mini plug
that he provides with the D9 bracket,
this is nice and clean, looks good and works just fine. In that
case, you solder the red/blue wires on one connector since
they are both for +(pos) to the tach. What you end up
with then are the three wires, black, green and red and then
follow the instructions above.
All in all it's been a learning curve, a bit frustrating at first (trying to get those teeny weeny pins out of the black connector) but with a bit of studying and help from the very knowledgeable D9 and those other posts, it worked quite well, it now works perfectly and the bonnnie is back together with a new wonderful mini tachometer.
Many thanks to all who answered, this board is a true resource for wrenching and stuff and I for one am glad it's here.....
Thanks guys..
Bill
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