Tripminder Installation

[sly]

It works, for now. I'll likely find a correct connector and clean that mess up later.

[DerekTheGreat]

ewww... vampire taps...

My thoughts exactly.

[kishy]

1985 Ford/Mercury EVTM has arrived. Click images for full size on Flickr, or I'm going to attach them in a zip.

Pages 77 and 78 - Tripminder





Referenced on page 77, here are pages 45 (EEC) and 126 (Speed Control):

[Birdofprey]

Sweet, thank you.

[Tiggie]

Maybe. Look for an unused connector around the parking brake and flasher.

Something in my brain is recalling a difference in CFI vs SEFI and that ground jumper from 7 to 9. I may be totally off base but somewhere, sometime like ten years ago, I read of someone having to add the jumper to make a CFI harness work with SEFI or vice versa. I'll go check my EVTM's if no one can confirm or deny my very cloudy memory.

To follow up on my previous comment, I checked my 82 vs 88 EVTM and found no such difference in the ground jumper. Must have been a dream.

[Tanner02480]

I wonder if all the cars have the speed sensor on the transmission or only the cars originally equipped with the tripminder option ??

[VicCrownVic]

It is there especially if the car has cruise control. If the car does not have cruise it may or may not be there; I've actually never seen, in person, one of these cars without cruise so I don't know for sure.

[kishy]

I wonder if all the cars have the speed sensor on the transmission or only the cars originally equipped with the tripminder option ??

It's actually cruise control that makes the determination, after the first few very early years which are weird (sensor on the back of the instrument panel, which is supposed to be for dealer-added cruise, but I found it in a car that may have had it from the factory too).

Up to 89 you'll find the speed sensor in cars with cruise or tripminder. I don't know if there is such a thing as a car with tripminder and without cruise. I do know the sensor is not there if you don't have either option.

The 90 new dash does not have room for a tripminder but those cars all have a speed sensor because the speedometers use electronic signals, not a mechanical cable.

[Tanner02480]

Since I was under the hood today, this is where the connector was on my '87 for the fuel feed. You can barely see the factory wire colors due to how grungy it was after 30 years of being tucked in a corner.

Can you comfirm the connector you used is this one by looking the shape of the end of it?
Thanks,

[Kodachrome Wolf]

Can you comfirm the connector you used is this one by looking the shape of the end of it?
Thanks,

Yep, that’s the connector.

[Tanner02480]

Thank you !