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Old 01-06-2015, 09:24 PM
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Tacho strange behaviour

Some 12 months ago my tacho started registering to max just over 2K as if its total scale of movement got limited to just over 2K. I didn't feel like ripping out the instrument cluster from the dash to check things out. Some 3 months ago, for no reason at all I noticed that it was again working correctly. Well, now all of a sudden it stopped working completely!!

Anyone with any experiences with their tachos? Sounds like it may have been a loose connection which came good and now is broken completely.

Any advice will be welcome.
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Re: Tacho strange behaviour

In all my years with SVXes never heard of a tach problem. Check your rpm sending unit.
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Old 01-07-2015, 08:54 AM
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Re: Tacho strange behaviour

I can't help in diagnosing the problem but, did experience the same. The tachometer struggled to reach 2000 rpm and stopped there. At the time, I found a replacement gauge cluster and swapped it out. The replacement tach still works fine, 3 years later. On the old gauge cluster, I could not visually see and breaks in the wire connections or circuit board.
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Re: Tacho strange behaviour

Are you sure the needle is not rubbing the face? The needle is very sensitive to pressure....
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