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Mine does it every now and again too, except i have a new (rebuilt) starter :(

Thats the first thing i assumed after I installed a new starter and still had the problem. Come to think of it, there was a spade connector on the orginal starter when i recieved it. I bet whoever owned it in japan had to do the same thing.

I have the EXACT same problem. It drive me absolutely nuts too. Tottaly intermittant, it will just click when the you go to start. Although, In my case i know its not the starter, ive had 3 in there, with the most recent being a brand new starter. Im wondering if there is a bad connection in...

So what was the solution? I have the exact same problem, 89 NA 5 speed chassis and the tach wont work. The wiring is correct, i have a signal all the way to the cluster plug and neither the 1J or my converted NA tach will work.

Another option is to run 2 standard 30A bosch relays. I use one relay on each fan on my FAL's. Anotner perk to this method is it does provide some redundancy if one of the relays fails.

Im using the driftmotion hose. Thats exactly what i thought as well, but it tests to ground just fine. I have an 89 so I wonder if some of the body pinouts are slightly different. Ill have to start poking around with the multimeter, but I wanted to make sure there wasnt some common fix first...

Bringing this back up, I have the exact same problem. My tach and oil pressure gauges are dead. Anyone figure out what the issue may be?

If you havent already, do the lightweight driver mod too ;)

Sounds good, I was going to cap it off but it looks like i dont need to. Thanks :bigthumb:

Bringing this back from the dead. Anybody have more input?

Very cool vid. I bet machining the whole block took quite a while.

TSRM spec for oil pressure is like 4psi at idle for the GTE. Dont worry about it.

I did mine before it blew as maintenance while the engine was out. Machined head and (carefully) scraped the block clean with a razor blade. Sprayed some copper sealant stuff on the MHG, slapped it on and torqued it down to 85 (IIRC) with ARP's. Never had any problems with it. Even after...

So it raises the question, are the 440's really 440? Has anyone flow tested them?

Mine is BC rated. I just mounted it behind the drivers seat, you cant even see it unless the seat if moved forward.