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onefootinthecasket

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• May 19, 2012

• #1

Since buying my 1990 RRC Vogue I've got everything working perfectly, except the tachometer, which has never worked.

Is it just as simple as removing the cluster and resoldering a wire or is it a deeper problem ?

 

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enduro

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• May 19, 2012

• #2

thats if the wires are broken ?and do you mean trip meter ? i its digital wil be more to it than a bit of solder pop out the cluster and send it off to a specialist

 

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onefootinthecasket

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• May 19, 2012

• #3

No, not the trip meter.

I should probably have used the more common name of "rev counter", it's just that I was in the motor trade for years and used the technical name - tachometer.

 

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TCubed

Active Member

• May 19, 2012

• #4

It will depend on whether the needle mechanism's gone, or the actual 'rev-counter' in the engine. If it's easy to remove the cluster it should be fairly obvious if it's that that's not working - just test with a circuit metre.

 

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• May 19, 2012

• #5

try seeing if the wire is fitted to alternator from memory the terminal labelled w

 

Datatek

Well-Known Member

• May 20, 2012

• #6

Yep, see if you have a signal from the alternator before you rip the cluster out. could be the alternator has been swapped at some time for one that doesn't have the tachometer output.

 

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onefootinthecasket

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• May 20, 2012

• #7

I've just noticed in my wad of receipts the previous owner gave me there is one for a new alternator, so I expect that is the reason.

I'm not all that bothered to be honest. If the alternator is one which won't accept a tachometer then I'll just leave it.

 

jamesmartin

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• May 20, 2012

• #8

rev counter wire goes to w terminal on rear of alternator

 

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onefootinthecasket

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• May 31, 2012

• #9

Well looks like we got a tach again!

God knows how but since I disconnected the battery and reconnected it the tach has started working great.

If she wants to fix herself, I ain't going to complain.

Maybe she'll change her own oil too....