What did I do wrong with the kill switch wiring for my Mk2 Golf? When I throw the kill switch the engine doesn't stop....... I thought I followed these directions but I clearly didn't do something right.
http://www.improvedtouring.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20130
I have this kill switch:
http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/productdetails.asp?RecID=4913
Included directions are:
The alternator "field wire" is the small blue wire coming off the alternator, right? (The one I have the red multimeter probe clipped to in the picture below.) According to the Bentley, and verified by checking continuity, this wire goes to the instrument cluster. So I took this wire at the instrument cluster, cut it, installed spade and ring terminals, and put each side of this wire on the two small poles of the kill switch.
I then routed a wire from the battery positive to one of the big poles on the kill switch. The second big wire went from the other big pole of the kill switch back to the starter, which is essentially the power distribution block because that is where the vehicle power supply is picked up.
The smalles red wire, covered in convolute, presumably is the red wire coming off the alternator. The bright red wire going into the top of the picture is the main power supply to the harness. The biggest, out of focus, pinkish wire goes to one side of the kill switch. So my kill switch wiring was meant to follow Fig 2 of the diagram but I didn't get something quite right.......
Overall it looks like this:
So when the kill switch is tripped the battery is taken out of the circuit, and I thought the alternator should stop charging when the field wire goes open circuit, but this clearly does not happen. I guess the alternator provides enough juice to keep the engine running at idle but Fig 2 shows the alternator charge wire on the other side of the kill switch from the battery, just like I did it, so I'm not exactly sure what I did.
Help is appreciated to tell me what I did wrong.
P.S. washer bottle is removed for a better picture.
http://www.improvedtouring.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20130
I have this kill switch:
http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/productdetails.asp?RecID=4913
Included directions are:
The alternator "field wire" is the small blue wire coming off the alternator, right? (The one I have the red multimeter probe clipped to in the picture below.) According to the Bentley, and verified by checking continuity, this wire goes to the instrument cluster. So I took this wire at the instrument cluster, cut it, installed spade and ring terminals, and put each side of this wire on the two small poles of the kill switch.
I then routed a wire from the battery positive to one of the big poles on the kill switch. The second big wire went from the other big pole of the kill switch back to the starter, which is essentially the power distribution block because that is where the vehicle power supply is picked up.
The smalles red wire, covered in convolute, presumably is the red wire coming off the alternator. The bright red wire going into the top of the picture is the main power supply to the harness. The biggest, out of focus, pinkish wire goes to one side of the kill switch. So my kill switch wiring was meant to follow Fig 2 of the diagram but I didn't get something quite right.......
Overall it looks like this:
So when the kill switch is tripped the battery is taken out of the circuit, and I thought the alternator should stop charging when the field wire goes open circuit, but this clearly does not happen. I guess the alternator provides enough juice to keep the engine running at idle but Fig 2 shows the alternator charge wire on the other side of the kill switch from the battery, just like I did it, so I'm not exactly sure what I did.
Help is appreciated to tell me what I did wrong.
P.S. washer bottle is removed for a better picture.