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Old Aug 28, 2016 | 05:49 AM
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Anyone using an Airguide Tach?

While pulling the inner fenders and radiator support out from a donur truck I found an Airguide tach. I think it is a model 656 or 657. It has 4 wires, blue, red, green, and either yellow or white. Does anyone know which wire goes where?




 
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Old Aug 28, 2016 | 08:29 AM
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Hmm, I think the Red & Green hot & Ground for a light. "Show the back side"
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Old Aug 28, 2016 | 11:09 AM
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Well on most tachs, red is switched power, yellow/white is light, green goes to the coil, and black is ground.
 
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Old Aug 28, 2016 | 11:12 AM
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Looked it up and it's for a boat? 'Might read wrong based on cylinder count.
 
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Yes, boat tach. I have an older one that uses a controller box to fire it. Not sure if your model requires one or not.

Edit: found a couple pics
 
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Old Aug 28, 2016 | 07:05 PM
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Yes it was made for a boat, but it will work for any 8 cyl. I'll have to look in the truck to see if it had a "controller box". The truck had lots of speaker wires installed under the dash, but no radio system. Thanks Tinman52 for the picture, at least I know what to look for.
 
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That's cool as hell. I've spent north of 100 bucks for vintage "looking" tachs to put in my old junk...even more for a genuine DixCo piece.
 
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That's cool as hell. I've spent north of 100 bucks for vintage "looking" tachs to put in my old junk...even more for a genuine DixCo piece.
Quoting my own post again... and this one from 7 years ago, even!

I have one of these Airguide tachs and am currently installing it on my 66 Galaxie. I got to this thread by the Googles when trying to double-check my wiring scheme... red, white, green, blue. I wanted to make sure that blue was ground, seems plausible.

I'm not sure if it's going to work, l don't have the controller box thing. I'm just running out of small quickie projects to do on this car and thought I'd give it a shot...

 
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