Belt tension
12-05-2021, 08:53 PM
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Belt tension
Working on a no start issue with a 87 five speed, got it cranked after working with the F/I harness, not sure what we did. I suspect a bad wire in the harness, but while tracing the right at the front after the TempII branch we found the casing taped up, looking the heavy gray shielded line to the Hall sensor and there is a Br/W wire has been cut and spliced to grounding wire so it is grounded. We think the other end is to the original belt tensioner so it is disabled! I guess this will keep the warning light from illuminating! So my question is this correct and does the PorKen kit eliminate the need for a warning light.
12-06-2021, 02:28 AM
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The PKT does not use the tensioner alarm system however the stock system alarm relies on continuity to ground to stop the alarm from annunciating- typical for a "failsafe" system design.
So as I understand, that contact to ground has to be maintained and presumably someone figured out that the way to do this was to splice into the Hall sensor shield presumably because it is physically next to the alarm wire . I would not have done it that way but that does not make what you have the wrong thing to do.
So as I understand, that contact to ground has to be maintained and presumably someone figured out that the way to do this was to splice into the Hall sensor shield presumably because it is physically next to the alarm wire . I would not have done it that way but that does not make what you have the wrong thing to do.