my shift light doesnt work.
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my shift light doesnt work.
I have a raptor shift light. it is connected to the #10 pin. power is connected to my traction control pink wire and it has a good ground. power isnt the problem. it lights up and goes thru its little test light show when i start the car...but when i hit the desired rpm...light doesn't come on? its set to 4 cylinder mode. and i tried setting it to different rpms...nothing. alls it does it do the little test when i start the car and thats it. any one have any suggestions? all connections are good. i double checked everything. do i just have a bad shift lite?
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I am having the same problem with my raptor shift light. I have a 98 and I am connected to the number 35 pin(white wire) of the PCM. Goes through the self test but just doesn't come on when the desired shift point is reached.
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I am going to check that tonight. I used one of the blue splice connectors. Maybe I need to replace that. Any other way to check the signal connection?
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What are some other good options to splice into the wire then? I have always used these.
Those little clamp-down splice things are the devil, unless you're in a hurry lol.
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Yeah, I have done that too...don't know what I was thinking. I will rewire that tonight. Maybe that is my problem. I had a power issue with it at first and it ended up being one of those clamp down types. I used my last butt splices fixing those wires..that is the reason I didn't try rewiring the tach wire.
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A good crimp should hold as good as solder...
I have a nice set of insulated connector crimpers. They clamp down so tight the wire will pull apart before it comes out. Put the ole' Vulcan death-grip on those bad boys.
Although there is usually never any conudctor exposed after I crimp, I usually wrap each one up with tape anyway as a backup.
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okay, I got me some more butt splices. I removed the crimp type splice and rewired it with a regular butt splice and it now works perfectly. That was the third crimp type that I had to replace because it wasn't making a good connection. Anyway, thanks for the input.
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Yeah, it is working now. I had it mounted to the sterring column but after almost blinding myself, I moved it to the pillar in the defrost vent. Looks like it is going to be a very nice piece.