Tom Newell

I will offer up a non-specific alternative view on you rebuilding an engine. Meant in an respectful manner with regard to all alternate opinions (things really can be very difficult). For a long, long time, people have told me I should not try to rebuild or fix something or ride a motorcycle or take a different job or whatever. I just don't have the "experience" (and sometimes equipment). Well, do you know what I have? Ability, aspiration and persistence. The combination of these attributes leads to accomplishments, and these successes can never be taken away from me. I do not know why anyone does this sort of discouragement (and this is not specific; it is very, very common; probably I do it too). After all, they, all of them, had once not done what they are telling you not to do, but now they have (if they have not done it, ignore them completely, probably in all things). So, for a very specific, real-world example. I was told for years (decades, really) that mere mortals can not and should not rebuild an automatic transmission. So what did I recently do? I rebuilt an automatic transmission. It took me a long time and I had to buy a bunch of tools (and the best manuals and videos I could find). But you know what, I get to keep the tools for next time and the accomplishment stays with me forever. And as a bonus, I got to put the labor $ budget in to vastly superior parts. And the transmission works great. (It is in an F350, so those transmissions have to be right or really bad things happen). Anyway, do you know how I know I can do these things that others tell me I can not do (this is very, very important)? BECAUSE SOME OTHER HUMAN BEINGS HAS DONE IT BEFORE. Please don't let people hold you back from what you want to do. Good luck to all.

"For the instrument cluster, the Battery or Charge light must be the original incandescent bulb if it has one." Thanks for the information. Is the incandescent bulb needed to provide a proper resistance to make the sensing setup work? As a follow-on question related to the answer of the prior question, if one wanted to use an LED to replace the incandescent bulb, could an additional inline resistor be added so as to make the cumulative resistance equivalent to that of the originally specified incandescent bulb? (Googling tells me resistance is additive; I stand ready to be corrected if this concept is incorrect.) Thanks, Tom Newell