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#15
by
Northern RD
on 27 Jun, 2007 11:07
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#16
by
Darth Garry
on 27 Jun, 2007 12:56
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What I find curious is that the tach goes to 7K rpm, which diesels can't even approach. It would seem to me to be a gas tach put into a diesel cluster.
Or something else even stranger....
Garry
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#17
by
BlackTieTD
on 27 Jun, 2007 13:09
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that one pictured appears to be just a gasser cluster modified to work off diesel signal, with a glow plug light put in to top it off. fairly common and easy to do. the
factory mkI diesel tach is what's interesting.........
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#18
by
myke_w
on 27 Jun, 2007 13:35
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Trev0rbr's is a gasser version modded to work with a diesel, hence the 7k "unleaded only".
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#19
by
RabbitJockey
on 27 Jun, 2007 20:59
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yeah the picture i put up is one i made, i didn't like that one since it had the gasser speedo, but thats what the guy wanted me to do so i did it.
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#20
by
TD_Bunny
on 28 Jun, 2007 16:30
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BlackTieTD, what MK1 came factory with a diesel tach? That is what i would like to get my hands on. I will have to look around a couple salvage yards for one now!!
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#21
by
burn_your_money
on 28 Jun, 2007 17:29
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I will have to look around a couple salvage yards for one now!!
Waste of time IMO. The one pictured is the ONLY one I have ever seen and as mentioned it appears to be a one off
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#22
by
BlackTieTD
on 28 Jun, 2007 18:42
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i have to agree
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#23
by
Northern RD
on 29 Jun, 2007 07:15
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I will have to look around a couple salvage yards for one now!!
Waste of time IMO. The one pictured is the ONLY one I have ever seen and as mentioned it appears to be a one off
Highly unlikly, given that the wiring diagrams in the A1 diesel Bentley illustrate a tach:why would they do that if it was a one-off?
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#24
by
the4ork
on 29 Jun, 2007 09:44
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i'd like to have the factory diesel tach and the gas speedometer (i hate 85mph max speedo)
the 7k tach would be fine, just re-face it... the diesel CAN go to 5k+... most cars that redline between 6-7 their tachs often go up to 8k not too much of a difference
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#25
by
RabbitJockey
on 30 Jun, 2007 08:26
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yeah especially if you plan to do any kind of governor mod i would let the gasser rev range on the tach, that lets u rev to like 6k doesn't it? so u only have an extra 1000 rpms. and yeah i definetly like putting the gti speed in the diesel housings. i love the 120 speedo in my jetta, it was cool finding out how fast i was going past 85 haha.
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#26
by
veeman
on 03 Jul, 2007 14:07
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Yep... I did the gasser conversion as well. I used the Dakota Digital converter / alt terminal mod then used a sharpie to "lower" the redline.
Isn't the scale / orientation the same on the OEM one as the gasser tach? Looks like they just left off the last few units. I'd imagine you could make the gasser tachlook the same as the "OEM" one in the pic with some careful paint touch-up work.
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#27
by
the4ork
on 03 Jul, 2007 14:54
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or some new gauge overlay / faces