Megansfolly Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 mine welded its self in and i had to strip back of transfer box off and bash it out lol i ll have another look at my problem tomz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeyw Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 I ordered the OEM version from LR series. It has all the hallmarks of a Britpart item so I sent it back and ordered the genuine part from them, only about £3 more than the OEM one.I've had it all connected on the bench and it seems to work OK, although I can't verify the MPH accuracy yet. My old speedo read spot on. Hopefully the new one will too. I have the green drive gear with 265 tyres. Okay, I thought I was going to get my speedo installed this weekend, but no. I connected everything up behind the dash and guess what, the speedo no worky. The mileage lights up, the backlighting works, but I cannot get the speedo needle to move when I spin the transducer with my fingers. As I mentioned above, I've previously had it all working fine on the bench, connected up as per Imperiado's instructions. So what is wrong? I've checked the wiring over and over and over, took it all out and set it up on the bench again and still no worky. I don't think I connected anything wrong, but if I did, what could I have damaged? I thought I'd check the transducer output first. From what Jimmy Neutron says it is meant to alternate between high and low output, so I hooked it up to 12v and a sillyscope. There is no output when connected like this, so I wonder if it needs any pull-up resistors to get an output. Does anyone have a data sheet for this component? I've Googled VDO 340.214/13/4 but all that comes up is the wibbly wobbly speedo thread! Also Jimmy mentions using a clock generator to advance the mileage reading. I'd love to know how to do this myself, Jimmy would you mind letting me in on this? More head scratching to do.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 there's not much inside the speedo transducer, I haven't removed the little black cover from my dead one, just split it at the end cap to extract the inner shaft. I could send you the outer part of my old one, it still works but you'll need the inner bit from yours to make complete unit. PM your address if you want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroanaconda Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share Posted November 26, 2009 Just to wrap this up, and provide a reference for anyone searching, my progress is chronicled here: http://www.retroanaconda.com/landrover/2009/10/installing-defender-td5-gauges-into-a-200tdi300tdi/ This is also covered in the infamous wibbly wobbly speedo thread, so if a mod would like to close this topic to further replies I wouldn't have issue with that. I'll post up a proper link for the tech archive when it's all good and done Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JST Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 thats a bloody good article Retro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Thanks for the offer that will make a great tech archive topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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