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Old 06-27-2004, 11:29 PM   #1
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diesel tach

has anyone put a tach in their diesel pickup... i have heard that there werent any factory tachs for the diesels during these years
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Old 06-28-2004, 12:43 AM   #2
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No, there was no factory tach in the Diesel trucks. There was also no factory tachs intalled in truck after 81.

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I've been to Gothenburg looking for Old John Deere 2 cylinder tractors. Do you know of any for sale in your area?

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Old 06-28-2004, 09:52 AM   #3
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To install a tach in a diesel pickup, you need to buy a special tach made just for diesels. They will have one of two styles of rpm hookups: one is a set of magnets that glue to the harmonic balancer with a reader mounted on the engine, the other is a pickup that hooks up to the alternator and reads alternator rpms and translates that to engine rpms.

Auto-meter makes a diesel tach, as well as several other companies.

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