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    Have been trying to put in an aftermarket tacho for a while now and can not get it to work. Found the signal wire ( brown one ) near the strut and it wont work. Put a multi meter on it and it is showing a signal.. Even went to the coil pack to get the signal wire (white one ) and still no go.

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    you hooking up the power and ground on the tacho.. as well as the sense wire..?

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    yeah . tried the tacho in a friends ford ( my bad ) and had no trouble.
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    hmm bit odd... you could always try the tacho wire behind the instrument cluster as well...

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    might give that a go tonight.
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    spose the only other issue is where are u tapping into for your power and ground wires... have u tried direct off the battery just to be sure..

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    yeah i have. the tacho in my dash died today as well
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    haha i know the answer to this i did it a while a go to mine ...
    You have a coil pack! most aftermarket tacho's run from a distrubutor which is a complately different type of signal!
    I found that brown wire and that white one and tried them to haha.
    I made my self a digital one if you wanna buy it from me because I instead bought a new dash (my manual vp didnt come with a tacho, sucks).
    Long story short it wont work !

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    Quote Originally Posted by JacobD_10 View Post
    Or fit the factory tacho. 10 min job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 88GreenVN View Post
    Or fit the factory tacho. 10 min job.
    Quote Originally Posted by sv6mad View Post
    the tacho in my dash died today as well
    as long as he has one its ten minutes.
    But yes ofcourse that is an option.

    You will most likely have to buy a whole new cluster, or you could repair yours (work out what happened).
    Doubt you will find just the tacho section.

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    someone hooked me up with a tacho , will wait for it and rebuild mine.
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    does any one know if the fuel gauge and temp gauge are the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sv6mad View Post
    does any one know if the fuel gauge and temp gauge are the same.
    The same as in you can run a VN VP VR or VS temp/fuel gauge in a L2 cluster and they will work.
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    yeah i just put a temp gauge out of a v8 L2 dash into my v6 L2 dash as a fuel gauge. seams to be workig.
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