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Old 03-02-2011, 05:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Malfunctioning Tachometer

Now that I've cleared up my overheating issues, I'm working on a small project that has been on the back burner. My Tach died about a year ago. I first noticed that once or twice a year or two back my tach would not work. However, turning the engine on and off solved the problem. Eventually, my tach began to read way too slow, and eventually stopped working entirely. occasionally when I really rev the engine the needle will twitch, but that is it. I think the connection might be gummed up in the engine compartment, but I have no idea where the sensors that feed the tach are located.
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Well depending on the engine the sensor can be in the distributor or entirely ECU controlled. No matter what though the ecu feeds a conditioned signal to the instrument cluster, to me it soudns like the actualy gauge itself may be bad.
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did you fix it? Mine has been dead over an year now...there is no twitch or anything, it died right after I changed the bulbs to leds...all connectors are good too...
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did you fix it? Mine has been dead over an year now...there is no twitch or anything, it died right after I changed the bulbs to leds...all connectors are good too...
Sounds like you might have pinched a wire...

You might want to pull the cluster and check.
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