RPM pick up and interior door pop up lock removal.

[Barbados]

Mates I would like to install a tachometer and an alarm system which has a turbo timer on my 97 Defender.

Both need an RPM reference signal, I love the Viper alarms and since the model I want has remote start and turbo timer for manual vehicles, why not install it and use at least the turbo timer.

In the old days we used the distributor wire and on newer cars the alternator wire to pick up an RPM signal, which wire do you guys use for an RPM reference wire on the Defenders?

Secondly, to remove the pop up inside door lock in order to remove the door panel, I think you have to pull it upwards with some force....is this correct. I have not spent much time looking at it and thought it best to ask you guys.

Thanks and Cheers.

 

[bluedog333]

You can use the alternator for RPM reading, with pulley ratio and number of poles calculation of course.
If I remember rightly you remove the pop-up surround ( if that makes sense ) by pushing it up strongly.

 

[armourermark]

I had to remove my door cards recently (my wife had puked all over the door after a work xmas function) and the pop-up surrounds can stick, I've broken a couple in the past, I'd give them a light spray of WD-40 or something similar, give them a bit of a wiggle then pry them upwards, should come out ok.

 

[Kwakerman]

I had to remove my door cards recently (my wife had puked all over the door after a work xmas function) and the pop-up surrounds can stick, I've broken a couple in the past, I'd give them a light spray of WD-40 or something similar, give them a bit of a wiggle then pry them upwards, should come out ok.

WD40 and Vomit, not a combination I've heard of before

 

[Barbados]

Thats why when mine drink I send her home in a taxi.

Let those guys deal with it, they are used to that every Friday and Saturday night, here its every night.
Taxi would be cheaper than me stripping door cards and her ruining my speakers and spraying acid on my shiny parts LOL

In fact she is French Canadian and can hold her drinks, the two times I been really buzzed she was the one who drove me home. She is a car fanatic too and would be upset if either one of us brought up dinner.

I have sprayed the pop up lock with lithium grease already, will see tomorrow.

 

[Barbados]

You can use the alternator for RPM reading, with pulley ratio and number of poles calculation of course.
If I remember rightly you remove the pop-up surround ( if that makes sense ) by pushing it up strongly.

Incidentally I looked under the Landy again and there is a threaded hole in right up front and center of the oil sump brim. The threads look shiny and clean as if some sensor of some sort was removed.

Looks like the perfect place to have a crank shaft sensor/rpm pick up. Would be cool to reach in there with a drill, install a rare earth magnet and a hall effect sensor

Have to see that was or what goes into that threaded hole. For the turbo timer or remote start, the RPM does not have to be accurate but would prefer if the tachometer is.

 

[bluedog333]

Incidentally I looked under the Landy again and there is a threaded hole in right up front and center of the oil sump brim. The threads look shiny and clean as if some sensor of some sort was removed.

Looks like the perfect place to have a crank shaft sensor/rpm pick up. Would be cool to reach in there with a drill, install a rare earth magnet and a hall effect sensor

Have to see that was or what goes into that threaded hole. For the turbo timer or remote start, the RPM does not have to be accurate but would prefer if the tachometer is.

What would that have been for? Is it the hole for a wading plug? Although this would not be in the sump of course! ( timing belt cover hole ? ).