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 Posted: Sun Aug 29th, 2004 02:16 pm
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Ok, I just bought a tach yesterday, I started installing it today and I have 3 wires coming out of it. Black, Red and Green. I have the Black hook up to a ground, the Red hooked up to a 12V power source. Now I know the green wire has to go to the distributer somewhere. I see 4 wires on the distributer, which one do I hook it to? I have the 2004 SE version.

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 Posted: Mon Aug 30th, 2004 12:13 pm
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you mean the coil pack? IIRC there is a green wire from the coil that goes onto. But unless you have a 2 pulse tach, you will need a tach adapter or have the tach adapted by the manufacturer for a 2 pulse system.



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 Posted: Mon Aug 30th, 2004 02:06 pm
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yup, you'll need an adapter unless the tach is designed to work without one.  The wonders of a distrubutorless ignition



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 Posted: Tue Aug 31st, 2004 08:38 am
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How can I tell if its a 2 pulse tach?I actually had the tach working...well somewhat...at one point. It would give a right reading at idle, but as soon as I gave it gas, it would jump back and give an inaccurate reading. The tach is an APC with Shiftlight, no idea on the model number, as I threw the box away. If I do need one of those adapters, how much would they cost?

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 Posted: Tue Aug 31st, 2004 02:51 pm
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From your description it does sound like you will need a adapter.

Ray at [url=http://www.http://myfordperformance.com]http://www.http://myfordperformance.com[/url] sells them.



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 Posted: Wed Dec 29th, 2004 08:37 am
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Good clean tach signal can be had at the ecu at pin 48. No tach adapter required. Anything that needs an rpm signal can use this location.

 

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edit:  this is the zetec ecu, not sure which you need, thought I'd clarify

 

Last edited on Wed Dec 29th, 2004 08:38 am by mr.squatch



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