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how to install tach?
Saturday, March 26, 2005 4:31 PM
i just got an autometer 5" tach and i was wondering what to hook it up to. i don't have a tach in my cluster and my car is manual. any help is appreciated.


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Re: how to install tach?
Saturday, March 26, 2005 4:32 PM
You need a tach adaptor.





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Re: how to install tach?
Saturday, March 26, 2005 4:41 PM
where can i get a tach adapter???


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Re: how to install tach?
Saturday, March 26, 2005 4:48 PM
rksport, gravantuning, Aplusperformance, Jim at gravana has them listed right on his page and so does RKsport. Ask jayson and he can prolly help you out aswell. I got pic's someone threw up not too long ago of the autometer adaptor.



Re: how to install tach?
Monday, March 28, 2005 7:23 PM
don't you just run a wire to one side of your coil?
Re: how to install tach?
Monday, March 28, 2005 7:47 PM
A little more than that. YOu need the adaptor which take the signal from the pink wire goes into the adaptor where it goes to your tach and completes the circut back to the pink wire. If you look at autometer site it shows your a diagram on how to wire it in. From the pictures i have and the info i read, it seems like an hr at most job to make it look really clean.



Re: how to install tach?
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:34 PM
OK but here's another thought. I just swapped my auto cluster to a 5spd cluster with a tach and it works fine (except for the highbeam light is on when the highbeams are off and off when they are on)... couldn't I just tap into the signal going to the cluster?
Re: how to install tach?
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:40 PM
nevermind, read in another thread that it's only "half a signal".. what the heck does THAT mean?

PS: I'm working with a 95 Cav here.
Re: how to install tach?
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:46 PM
Wasted spark ignition system fires both cylinders on the coil at the same time, so its a half signal because its only sending signals out to two coils, but the two coils fire on 4 cylinders.





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Re: how to install tach?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:25 AM
Ooooh, didn't realize there were two coils.
Re: how to install tach?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:56 PM
get the adapter from carbon by design its like $12 and its fast shipping!and and they will give you the instructions

Re: how to install tach?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:07 PM
i couldn't find anything on that website, could you post the link
Re: how to install tach?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:16 PM
get the adapter from carbon by design its like $12 and its fast shipping!and and they will give you the instructions
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