Re: [DML] New RPM relay, still no go.

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Slight clarification of Martin's post: White/Gray originates at the Ignition ECU (it's a ground that is switched on & off by the ECU), then separates at a soldered junction inside the relay compartment (likely intact) to various devices: coil, RPM relay, idlespeed ECU, and dash tach. Coil is at the end of one of those lines.

Everything depends upon this sentence in your original post: "... He suspected a bad RPM relay as it would work when bypassed with toggle switches...." Do you mean the engine worked (ran) when the RPM relay was bypassed? If so, the distributor pickup and ignition ECU must be OK, otherwise the engine would not run.

Your mechanic should be able to see an ice pick light flash on & off as the engine rotates at the White/Gray wire in RPM relay harness connector, just like the negative side of the coil.

That wire should of course ring out to the coil as well.

If your mechanic can not ring out White/Gray between the RPM relay and the coil, and if the engine in fact runs with the RPM relay bypassed, the break has to be between the soldered junction in the relay compartment and the RPM relay harness connector (about 1 foot apart from each other). Everything between the soldered junction and coil/ignition ECU would have to be intact for the engine to run.

Bill Robertson
#5939

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Martin Gutkowski" <martin@...> wrote:
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> The white/grey wire breaks out at the coil, idlespeed ECU, ignition amp and rpm gauge. However, has he checked the connection from distributor to the ignition amplifier? If the amp doesn't "see" the signal, it won't generate a spark signal, this is the source of the signal, not the coil.
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> Martin
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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:18:39 
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> Subject: [DML] New RPM relay, still no go.
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> Greetings,
> 
> I have a mechanic working on getting my D out of storage and running again. He suspected a bad RPM relay as it would work when bypassed with toggle switches. After replacing the relay it still would not work. I will copy what he wrote to me in the last email.
> 
> "Unfortunately the relay did not fix the problem. I believe the 
> problem lies in the signal that comes from the coil. In looking though 
> the manual it shows that #1 terminal from the coil goes to the RPM 
> Relay, which is the signal the relay is looking for. When doing a 
> continuity test from the coil to the RPM relay it has a broken signal. 
> The manual is very vague on the routing of this wire but I think it goes 
> through the something else."
> 
> He is unfamiliar with the DeLorean but seems to be great with European cars of this era. Is the manual misleading us and is there something else we should be looking for? 
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Brandon.
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