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Old 11-28-2013, 03:02 AM   #1
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tach prblems

i installed a brand new stewart warner tachin my truck. fired it up it worked great wasreading rpm about 700. went out to start truck next day and it just kept turning over but wouldn't start. unplugged green tach wire from dist and she started right up. hokked ac wire back up and no start just turnin over. im thinking its not grounded god enough????? didn't ave time to check round tonite. any thoughts? am I on the right track thinking bad ground?
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Old 11-28-2013, 08:01 AM   #2
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Re: tach prblems

(unplugged green tach wire from dist and she started right up) Mine goes to the - on the coil, is that what you meant?
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Old 11-28-2013, 11:14 AM   #3
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Re: tach prblems

maybe the tach is bad and is shorting out the coil
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Old 11-28-2013, 09:09 PM   #4
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Re: tach prblems

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"Unplugging" the tach wire from the "distributor" would indicate to me that he might have an HEI distributor. Are you sure you have the correct wire for the tach feed? Green doesn't sound right to me. I don't have any SW tachs in my vehicles so I'm not 100% sure on that. If the green wire happens to be a ground wire from the tach you could be grounding out the dist.

Just a thought...

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Old 11-28-2013, 09:13 PM   #5
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Re: tach prblems

Yep hei . Yeah greens the right wire to go to dist. Have a green which goes to tach side of dist. Red that goes switched ignition in my fuse box. Black that's ground and a white that's for illumination that lights tach when I turn on my lights.
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Old 11-28-2013, 09:24 PM   #6
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Yep hei . Yeah greens the right wire to go to dist. Have a green which goes to tach side of dist. Red that goes switched ignition in my fuse box. Black that's ground and a white that's for illumination that lights tach when I turn on my lights.

Where do you have the black wire connected to ground at?

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Old 11-28-2013, 10:54 PM   #7
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Yep hei . Yeah greens the right wire to go to dist. Have a green which goes to tach side of dist. Red that goes switched ignition in my fuse box. Black that's ground and a white that's for illumination that lights tach when I turn on my lights.
If yours is like mine, the black needs to be connected whether or not you have the illumination hooked up. Green goes to the tach connection on the HEI which is right next to the battery connection for the distributor.

Red to B+
Black to ground
White for instrument lighting
Green for tach sense.

This if for a newer tach and not the vintage model.
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Old 11-28-2013, 09:26 PM   #8
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Right by fuse box on the floor. I sanded paint off.
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