Joeschmo90
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- 1992
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So i read the article on here about installing a tripminder in a ranger and decided to do it.
It's a 92 ford ranger reg cab, long bed, 3.0L v6 and a4ld auto trans.
Got it working somewhat the clock and trip odometer part work great.
The econ (mpg guage) is way off, idling in park it says 0 mpg then as i'm driving the numbers will keep going up and up as i accelerate even if i floor it. i was going 45mph steady and it said I was getting 150 or so mpg (yeah i wish).
In most cars that have a mpg gauge stock when idling it'll say something like 40+ mpg and then as the person accelerates the mpg gauge goes down until they'll cruising at a steady speed
so whats going on here? is my tripminder broken? it seems its reading the signal reversed or something. what could i do to fix this?
I wired everything correctly as the article told me. the vss signal is hooked to pin 3 (a little gray with black stripe wire) and the fuel flow wire goes to pin 34 (which i had to add a pin for)
It's a 92 ford ranger reg cab, long bed, 3.0L v6 and a4ld auto trans.
Got it working somewhat the clock and trip odometer part work great.
The econ (mpg guage) is way off, idling in park it says 0 mpg then as i'm driving the numbers will keep going up and up as i accelerate even if i floor it. i was going 45mph steady and it said I was getting 150 or so mpg (yeah i wish).
In most cars that have a mpg gauge stock when idling it'll say something like 40+ mpg and then as the person accelerates the mpg gauge goes down until they'll cruising at a steady speed
so whats going on here? is my tripminder broken? it seems its reading the signal reversed or something. what could i do to fix this?
I wired everything correctly as the article told me. the vss signal is hooked to pin 3 (a little gray with black stripe wire) and the fuel flow wire goes to pin 34 (which i had to add a pin for)