98 DX: Installed gauge cluster with tach, but tach doesn't work
07-01-2006, 08:44 PM
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98 DX: Installed gauge cluster with tach, but tach doesn't work
Do I need to splice into some wire to get my tach working ? I have a 98 DX and it didn't previously have a tach, I bought a 96 gauge cluster and installed it - everything works but the tach.
Also, my car is used with a b16a2 swap, so who knows if everything is run correctly - it just seems like if I could get the blue tach wire to the gauge cluster, it would work.
In my searches, it seems like B8 is the connector I should run a blue wire to, does this sound right? I just want my instrument cluster's tach to work.....even if I have to manually run a wire.
Help, please!
Also, my car is used with a b16a2 swap, so who knows if everything is run correctly - it just seems like if I could get the blue tach wire to the gauge cluster, it would work.
In my searches, it seems like B8 is the connector I should run a blue wire to, does this sound right? I just want my instrument cluster's tach to work.....even if I have to manually run a wire.
Help, please!
07-03-2006, 08:09 AM
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Anyone have pics of the tach wire - I test both blue wires from the distributor and one had zero voltage and the other had 12volt constant...so I know that's not the tach wire....
07-03-2006, 01:10 PM
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i could tell you the wire if you didnt do your swap.....
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its easier to find with a buddy, because he can turn on the key to acesory, and you will see a jump in power through the wire.... ill take pictures later today if you still ned help
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its easier to find with a buddy, because he can turn on the key to acesory, and you will see a jump in power through the wire.... ill take pictures later today if you still ned help
07-03-2006, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ReVenGe
i could tell you the wire if you didnt do your swap.....
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its easier to find with a buddy, because he can turn on the key to acesory, and you will see a jump in power through the wire.... ill take pictures later today if you still ned help
bit
its easier to find with a buddy, because he can turn on the key to acesory, and you will see a jump in power through the wire.... ill take pictures later today if you still ned help
07-03-2006, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RicoD
That tach should be plug and play :thinking: I could be wrong though...
Maybe the instrument cluster is not getting rpm signal!
07-03-2006, 05:14 PM
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Thanks all! You guys are entirely right, I was not getting a tach signal. After some further research, I found exactly which was the test tach lead, from there, I tested it with a multimeter and no voltage.
I tested all of the blue wires from the distributor wiring (this was an engine swap that I didn't do, I just bought this car)
There was one with voltage when the car was running and I test ran this to the B8 pin and wa-lah, I had a tach.
I then ran a wire to the test tach lead, which also turned on the tach when the cluster was plugged in.
So thanks everyone and hopefully this thread helps others. From my searches, I found the tach wire, the distributor wiring, the color of the wire, but no one had a similar issue of when you plug and pray and the cluster didn't work.
So the extra step here is to test for voltage first....
I tested all of the blue wires from the distributor wiring (this was an engine swap that I didn't do, I just bought this car)
There was one with voltage when the car was running and I test ran this to the B8 pin and wa-lah, I had a tach.
I then ran a wire to the test tach lead, which also turned on the tach when the cluster was plugged in.
So thanks everyone and hopefully this thread helps others. From my searches, I found the tach wire, the distributor wiring, the color of the wire, but no one had a similar issue of when you plug and pray and the cluster didn't work.
So the extra step here is to test for voltage first....
