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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 02:56 PM
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making the tach work

OK i didnt have a tach in my 1993 5.0 4x4 and i wanted one i dug through my pile of old parts and found one from a diesel hooked it up and all the gagues worked except for the tack how do i make the tach work?
 
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 04:49 PM
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The tach from the diesel will not work in your gas engine equipped truck (or vice versa). The diesel tach gets it's signal from the fuel pump timing gear. The gas engine tach gets it's signal from the negative side of the coil. Two different animals.
 
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 05:33 PM
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if you decide to hook up an aftermarket tach. then the green wire of the tach will connect to the green wire at the coil.
 
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 08:01 PM
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i figured it could work cause the tach jumps it just doesnt work correctly
 
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