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shenan-agon
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 Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: Adding a tach - what are you guys using? |
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This one's for you guys who have a huge freaking clock in your dash instead of a tach. How many of you have added one in? Any good install placement pics to share? I'm thinking someone might want to buy my van a new present for Christmas  |
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pocvw
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Take a look at Mightyart's gallery pics. He put in a tach where the clock is. Looks awesome! Much better than those huge tachs that you have to mount somewhere on your dashboard.
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Ericthenorse
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Looks liek you have a late model...(if that is your van in the avitar) You should be able to get a tach at the wrecking yard and put it in... The wires are already there in the plug on the back of the dash, they are not used by the clock, but they are there. Disregard if you have '85 or older... 
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Yellow Rabbit
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| So on 86+ vans, the tach is a direct plug and play? |
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r39o
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| So on 86+ vans, the tach is a direct plug and play? |
You got's to look at the wiring diagram, to be sure.
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Ericthenorse
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OK.... I just double checked my advice..... The wires are still in place in the HARNESS..... if you get a tach at the yard, you must also get the printed circut from the back. Apparently they internally terminate the tach lead(on the printed circut) in the non tach models. They are too cheap to make two different harnesses....
The same thing works with other H2O cooled VW's... if you have an A1 or A2 jetta/rabbit, then you can drop a dash from a tach model right in and it will work.
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mightyart
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wbx
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: Re: Adding a tach - what are you guys using? |
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| shenan-agon wrote: |
| This one's for you guys who have a huge freaking clock in your dash instead of a tach. How many of you have added one in? Any good install placement pics to share? I'm thinking someone might want to buy my van a new present for Christmas |
I only know about my earlier model van (an '84). I got the tach and circuit board out of an '85 and plugged it in. I just had to move around a bunch of wires in the harness plug (this was the harded part). Otherwise, great addition. You also might need to run a tach wire from the - terminal of the coil to the dash. In mine, there was a plug waiting for it in the dash... you later model might hopefully be already wired up for it.
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