installed an aftermarket tach to my civic cx hatch.
power, ground and light wire were all hooked up fine and working but tach wasnt reading....
wire was traced to engine bay and found it NOT connected! (pointing in pic)



anyone else run into this problem?
would tapping it to the other blue wire (just underneath what im pointing to) fix the problem?
did search and didnt help. sorry for the bad pic!
thanks
andy

 

on 92-95's there is a blue or green wire (cant remember) right there that doesnt connect to anything (at least on civics without factory tachs), and that is what you connect the tach to.

 

yes the above guy is correct, just tap into the blueish/green wire and u will start reading RPM'S

 

i just did it and it still doesnt work!
the car actually turns over wierd/weak when the wires taped.
cant figure out the problem. if the wire isnt connected to anything on that end of the engine, how could the tach work when the other end (to the cluster) isnt connected to anytinng to the engine?!

 

its that wire that gives the tach its signal thats the only thing u connect beside the power and light wires

 

bump

 

well since no one knows and for future reference, i fixed the problem.
i had to tap into a wire off the distributor and not the wire mentioned above, in this case.

 

there should be a cap on the green wire...just take off the cap and plug in the wire and you will read RPM's great...i'll shoot pics for you tomorrow if you need them. hope i helped at least a little bit

 

I need them, post pics plz

 

right below hood hinge int he engine bay is a blue wire going to nothing it can connect to that.

 

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read the thread, weve already said that a million times. i guess once more cant hurt....heh

 

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