Fisher Fury - electrical help needed

[anonymous-user]

Hopefully there are some electrical experts and/or Fury owners here that can help me out - I'm currently making a new dashboard for my zetec fury, and have a couple of questions about electrics as I really don't understand this stuff:

1. i remembered to write down all the wiring connections to the instruments, apart from the 3 wires on the ETB tacho - I have 3 connectors - purple , black and yellow , and 3 terminals on the tacho - neg , pos and +12v. Anyone know what connects to what?

2. there is no wiring to the cap on the brake fluid reservoir and I'd like to wire up a warning light for low fluid - how would I go about doing that?

3. I have a dash switch to manually turn the cooling fan on, but I'd like to have a light come on also to show when the fan is running - how would I wire that in? I've no idea if the switch works a relay or not, the switches are marked as 27 amps.

thanks
James

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 27th September 23:53

[mikeveal]

JimSuperSix said:

Hopefully there are some electrical experts and/or Fury owners here that can help me out - I'm currently making a new dashboard for my zetec fury, and have a couple of questions about electrics as I really don't understand this stuff:

1. i remembered to write down all the wiring connections to the instruments, apart from the 3 wires on the ETB tacho - I have 3 connectors - purple , black and yellow , and 3 terminals on the tacho - neg , pos and +12v. Anyone know what connects to what?

2. there is no wiring to the cap on the brake fluid reservoir and I'd like to wire up a warning light for low fluid - how would I go about doing that?

3. I have a dash switch to manually turn the cooling fan on, but I'd like to have a light come on also to show when the fan is running - how would I wire that in? I've no idea if the switch works a relay or not, the switches are marked as 27 amps.

thanks
James

Edited by JimSuperSix on Sunday 27th September 23:53

1/ Nope. Buy a cheap Multimeter and work it out.

2/+12V ignition feed ->fuse ->One terminal of fluid cap.
Other terminal of fluid cap -> one side of 12V warning lamp.
Other side of warning lamp -> chassis ground.

3/ 12V terminal of fan -> one side of lamp.
Other side of lamp -> Chassis ground.

[brman]

mikeveal said:

1/ Nope. Buy a cheap Multimeter and work it out.

2/+12V ignition feed ->fuse ->One terminal of fluid cap.
Other terminal of fluid cap -> one side of 12V warning lamp.
Other side of warning lamp -> chassis ground.

3/ 12V terminal of fan -> one side of lamp.
Other side of lamp -> Chassis ground.

2. alteratively, given you probably have a fused 12V behind the dash you might save cabling by doing 12V->bulb->fluid cap switch->ground

[mikeveal]

Needs to be an ignition feed, not a battery, or the lamp will stay on when the ignition is off and drain the battery.

[brman]

very true. And, not wanting to be condescending to the OP (you did say you don't understand this stuff...) but if you cannot work out which wire is which on the tacho you might struggle to find the correct supply and get everything wired correctly.
Can you find someone local who can pop round and give you a hand? That way you will learn (it isn't actually very complicated) without the danger of messing up your pride and joy?