|
02-22-2017, 09:55 PM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Posts: 712
|
Re: My tach install thread
Excellent! There are actually three SMD LEDs for illumination. I should be all set!
As a side note, the interior sure is messy. Lots of solder flux and even a layer of dust on large capacitors. I gently put the shop air to it and I'm sure I saw some debris flying off of it! |
02-22-2017, 09:58 PM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Posts: 712
|
Re: My tach install thread
BTW, how did you fabricate/form the mounting ring on your early prototype that the back of tach actually mounts to?
Ever find a clock? |
02-22-2017, 10:34 PM | #3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Lambertville, MI
Posts: 1,860
|
Re: My tach install thread
I currently have a 63 cluster I'm installing a tach in for a customer and i was going to use black RTV to seal the rubber gasket to the housing.
As far as the prototype, i cut the ring in the lathe and had the plate with the holes plasma cut. The reason i changed the process was because it was too consuming to make that small ring. Was easier to machine it from one pc of aluminum. |
02-22-2017, 10:39 PM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Lambertville, MI
Posts: 1,860
|
Re: My tach install thread
I'm thinking your tach was assembled wrong. when you take those 2 nuts off the back, its supposed to separate. Thats how you wire it. So yours was totally crimped together?
|
02-23-2017, 12:58 AM | #5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Posts: 712
|
Re: My tach install thread
Yep, totally and permanently assembled. At least until I got a hold of it. I bought it from Amazon. I'm gonna see about getting the word out by giving a review that there may be a bad batch of them on the shelf.
|
03-03-2017, 11:16 AM | #6 |
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Manlius, NY
Posts: 1,698
|
Re: My tach install thread
Have you mounted the tach without the face plate on yet? Did you use the bracket from rideblue00?
|
03-03-2017, 06:40 PM | #7 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Posts: 712
|
Re: My tach install thread
Quote:
My plan was to upload a few pics but haven't gotten to it. Soon I hope. |
|
03-03-2017, 06:52 PM | #8 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Manlius, NY
Posts: 1,698
|
Re: My tach install thread
Quote:
|
|
02-22-2017, 10:42 PM | #9 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Lambertville, MI
Posts: 1,860
|
Re: My tach install thread
I have not put any more time into finding a clock. I found a guy on ebay selling clusters with clocks and i asked him some questions about them...he said they were super special made and cost $300. I'm skeptical, but ok to each his own.
|
03-03-2017, 08:55 PM | #10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Posts: 712
|
Re: My tach install thread
Yes, I think it does look better. I also RTV'd the glass and rubber gasket on the housing just for more dust protection. The rubber also gives it a bit of cushion against the front of the cluster.
|
03-03-2017, 10:00 PM | #11 |
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Manlius, NY
Posts: 1,698
|
Re: My tach install thread
|
03-03-2017, 11:26 PM | #12 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Posts: 712
|
Re: My tach install thread
Here ya go...
|
03-03-2017, 11:28 PM | #13 |
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Manlius, NY
Posts: 1,698
|
Re: My tach install thread
|
03-03-2017, 11:38 PM | #14 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Posts: 712
|
Re: My tach install thread
Thanks. Kinda crude but it works quite well, I think. I'd love to have one like yours, Ride!
|
03-19-2017, 10:28 PM | #15 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Lambertville, MI
Posts: 1,860
|
Re: My tach install thread
Working on a bracket for a 63 cluster
|
07-04-2017, 12:25 AM | #16 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Ragley, La.
Posts: 137
|
Re: My tach install thread
I am interested in the 63 bracket. Let me know if you can sell me one.
|
04-02-2017, 07:13 AM | #17 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Lambertville, MI
Posts: 1,860
|
Re: My tach install thread
So here are a few more pics of the 63 bracket. Haven't worked out all the bugs yet. Only exception, I will have to have the original bracket off the customers cluster to machine the hole to fit the tach. Since the cluster bracket houses the fuel and the oil gauge, I'm not making a complete new bracket, just an addition bracket. unless someone knows cad and can come up with dimensions. Its a time consuming bracket, the 64-66 one i make is way easier.
|
04-11-2017, 10:42 AM | #18 |
Active Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Southeast MI
Posts: 192
|
Re: My tach install thread
I bought your tach bracket 9/2016, have yet to do anything with it but I am thinking about buying one of the the Bosch FST8050 units. After reading the recent posts, I am not clear if my bracket is compatible with the Bosch FST8050?
|
04-11-2017, 11:46 AM | #19 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Lambertville, MI
Posts: 1,860
|
Re: My tach install thread
The FST 8050 is what it is designed for.
|
04-11-2017, 03:37 PM | #20 |
Active Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Southeast MI
Posts: 192
|
Re: My tach install thread
|
04-11-2017, 04:15 PM | #21 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Marietta, GA
Posts: 799
|
Re: My tach install thread
|
04-11-2017, 04:39 PM | #22 |
Active Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Southeast MI
Posts: 192
|
Re: My tach install thread
|
06-27-2017, 08:19 PM | #23 |
Active Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Southeast MI
Posts: 192
|
Re: My tach install thread
Would like to replicate the other cluster connections for the tach connections, any idea where I can get these terminals?
|
07-04-2017, 08:17 AM | #24 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Lambertville, MI
Posts: 1,860
|
Re: My tach install thread
The 63 bracket is too cost prohibitive. It was too time consuming. It would be $200. And i have to have your cluster to do the modification. It really would only be for a performance application, because of the higher RPM sweep. The reproduction tach is a better option.
|
07-04-2017, 10:47 AM | #25 |
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Ragley, La.
Posts: 137
|
Re: My tach install thread
I understand your pricing, if you start making them let me know.
I'm sure you've looked at the other thread about making this Tach into a (V8) 6000 rmp tach by setting it to 4cyl and printing a new gauge face. I have a 6cyl and I plan to set it as a 4cyl and see where it points, using a second tach to know where is at 1k rpm, 2k rpm ect. Then I hope to print a new gauge face. I will probably get it down to 7000 rpm tach. The main thing I have learned here is the same tach fits both gauge clusters. Thanks, Ken |
Bookmarks |
|
|