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Looking for a good Switched Power Source for Fuel Pump



Gotta love the spliced harness eh? I need to weed mine out a bit, I have
some stuff that got spliced that should at minimum have a shrink label on
it so I can figure out what the heck I've done once I get more senile!
Cathy

On 9:26 pm 03/22/07 "Don Walter" <dswalterwi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cathy, Thanks for your help. I got my car running again.  I managed
> to locate the harness that had the wires originally connected to the
> coil.  It was connected to the switched power of the TEC 2 go figure! 
> I tapped into the black wire from that connection which was driving the
> TEC 2.   BTW coming out of that harness was a Black, Red w/Black, and a
> Brown w/White wire.  Not sure what the other two are good for but they
> are still there none the less.
>
> Something odd I found when I had the Fuse Block pulled out was a
> Red/Yellow or Yellow/Red wire, looks very close I can&#39;t tell, was
> cut and tapped into and run up into the engine bay.  I think it goes to
> the back of one of the Headlight relays and was possibly used to drive
> the headlight harness I took out and replaced with a purchased one. 
> I&#39;m thinking of reconnecting it to restore it back to original
> condition.
>
>
> On 3/21/07, C Boyko  wrote:Mine&#39;s using a black wire with a white
> stripe, it may be stock or one that Drew and the Cheapassed one wired
> in when the KS ignition was grafted in down in Ohio. Regardless,
> it&#39;s probably a stock wire colour for that purpose. At some point
> I&#39;ll track it right back to the connector, too tired to dig out a
> Bentley at the moment :) I can look at the 16V tomorrow if I remember
> and see what colour hers is. Cathy, not a whole heck of a lot of help
> eh?
>
> On 5:20 pm 03/21/07 &quot;Don Walter&quot;  wrote:
> >
> >  I just remembered I don&amp;#39;t have a coil.  Well not the stock
> >  coil I have a coil pack off the TEC 2 so the coil was removed.
> >  Anyone know where the source to the stock coil comes from.
> >  I&amp;#39;m not sure if the original wiring is still there or not
> >  so I may have to back track to where the power came from.
> >
> >  On 3/20/07, C Boyko  wrote:I&amp;#39;m using the wire to my coil as
> >  switched for my MSnS, sounds like Dan B and Chuck also use it. In
> >  my case, I can just detached it from the coil because MS has an
> >  internal coil driver which has worked well enough so far with the
> >  car still on CIS for fuel. Cathy
> >  On 11:20 am 03/20/07 &amp;quot;Don Walter&amp;quot;  wrote:
> > >   My TEC 2 used to activate a relay to turn on and off my fuel
> > >   pump but last night it fired itself.  The rest of the TEC is
> > >   fine, apperently this is a common problem with them.  The TEC
> > >   was nice because it would shut off the fuel pump after 20 secs
> > >   if the engine was not running to conserve the battery.  There
> > >   tech person told to just use a switched power source.  It willl
> > >   need to be active during cranking so I don&amp;#39;t think it
> > >   can be any switched source.  I was not using the Stock fuel
> > >   pump relay as that got corroded and was causing a voltage drop
> > >   and the TEC could drive the fuel pump directly or a relay to
> > >   turn on and off the the fuel pump so I have already bypassed
> > >   the stock relay.   Just need a place to connect to a reliable
> > > switched source.
> > >   --
> > >   Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
> > >   1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
> > >   1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
> > >   1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
> > >   http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
> > >   1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben&amp;#39;s Car)
> > >   1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
> > >   1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
> > >   1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
> > >   1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
> > >   1969 Beetle (sold)
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> >  Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
> >  1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
> >  1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
> >  1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
> >  http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939) 1986 2L 16V Toronado
> >  Red Scirocco (Ben&amp;#39;s Car) 1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red
> >  Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04) 1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years
> >  ago) 1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
> >  1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
> >  1969 Beetle (sold)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
> 1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
> 1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
> 1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
> http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939) 1986 2L 16V Toronado Red
> Scirocco (Ben&#39;s Car) 1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on
> 3/29/04) 1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
> 1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
> 1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
> 1969 Beetle (sold)