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Original 1956 Ford Mercury F100 M100 Tachometer Also 1953 1954 1955 Truck F 100 | eBay

Pretty danged cool and I'd love to have one but, Holy Cow!! they are wanting more for this tach than what I paid for my whole truck.

I'm going to watch this auction just to see what it goes for

Bobby

 

It's been listed for well over a year.

 

BTW, one just sold 2 weeks or so ago on eBay for $100, and one a couple of weeks before that for $160. I paid less than both of those for mine.

 

Y-blocks had a redline of 4500?? Jeez, I thought flatheads were sluggers...

 

Ok all five of my trucks have that, and probably five more in the file cabinet.
So thats $10,000? I dont think so. The evilbay guys got it wrong its
more like $50 for the tack and $1000 for a distrubutor. The distrubutor
is the biggie and are few and far inbetween. If anyone wants a tack
which is Pretty, for small Y blocks a very pricey Thunderbird dist. for
FE engines HD330 & 391Fts if you can find one, and for popular 302's
up to 460s I know of none (dist with tack drive) Big Y blocks you can
use 57 (368) Turnpike Cruiser, If you can find one. And for the Chevy
guys Corvett lots of those around. But wait there is hope, a tack drive
driven off the Crank (front) damper/pulley bolt thats a marine item..

 

So it drove off the distributor?

 

Yes, they were driven off the distributor. I converted mine though.

There was a tach that sold a couple of weeks ago for $25 on eBay. I don't have a link.

Here are the two tachs that sold that I posted about earlier:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1956-ford-Bi...p2047675.l2557

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1956-ford-tr...p2047675.l2557

 

I'm actually running an old Dixco (I think thats what it is). For now, I like the looks and will probably hang onto it but if I stumbled on a factory tach for what I paid for this old Dixco (it was a freebie) I'd be tempted

 

Is this the same tach?The picture in the first post is to hard to see.I snapped this today.And if so what is the proper location for 56'?

 

I bought this old 6v marine tach at a swapmeet for $20....looks cool and works great.

 

I guess the ad still works,Tach is same but different.might be close enough for what I need.I like your tach tinman,seems to me I have a friend with one similar.I have an old sun like that but it doesn't work.

 

No, they are not the same. The faces are similar, but the needles are different. For the '53 - '56 they also mount in the dash not the cluster and you will need the bezel to be correct. Here is the one in my '54:



And here are is one in a '56:



And here you can see the bezel:



Also unless you convert it to electronic you will need to also get the drive cable and distributor.

 

Also I've been told the white numbers are for a '56, and the green numbers are for the slant cabs. The pictures show both colors in a '56 so I have never been able to verify it...

 

I see the needle is wrong in my pic,and yes I plan on converting to electronic for a diesel.Should be perfect parameters for a cummins.So did they ever install them in half tons or just big trucks?

 

Oh, so you're not going for something "correct" - by that I mean stock '56.

It should work good for your application.

As far as I know they were only in the big trucks.