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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: shegel on December 13, 2007, 10:12:19 pm

Title: tach
Post by: shegel on December 13, 2007, 10:12:19 pm

my car has the w terminal but i dont have the cash to buy a new cluster. can i just take a tach and hook the signal part of it up to the w terminal?

Title: tach
Post by: Op-Ivy on December 13, 2007, 11:52:31 pm

Yes, as long as that tach is a diesel specific one. Gasser tachs run of the distributer (different signal).

Title: tach
Post by: shegel on December 14, 2007, 12:00:14 am

im not sure what the tach is off of. i found it in a box when i was under the house looking for my dads compress9ion tester.....will it hurt anything if i hook it up/.

Title: tach
Post by: somolovitch3 on December 14, 2007, 04:55:40 am

If it goes to 7K its a gasser.

Title: tach
Post by: shegel on December 14, 2007, 07:59:04 am

i would still like to try....will it hurt anything if i do hook it up

Title: tach
Post by: burn_your_money on December 14, 2007, 08:37:14 am

I doubt it but I don't know.

Look for markings on it and type them into google

Title: tach
Post by: RabbitJockey on December 14, 2007, 08:15:01 pm

i don't think it hurts anything to hook them up, it looks pretty funny though

Title: tach
Post by: Vincent Waldon on December 14, 2007, 08:33:25 pm

The W signal is approximately 12 times faster than a gasser tach will expect, and the waveform is different as well... let us know what you find out !