Draven8795

Anyone have a distributor go out and wreck the tach?

I got a new distributor as it had the red dust and I was throwing codes relating to the distributor. But the new distributor in and the codes are gone.

However my autometer tach no longer wants to work. I hooked it up directly off the blue wire coming from the distributor no dice. Hooked up another one I had from another car same wiring and it works. I'm guess my autometer is dead?

NVturbo

You mean those 5" Monster tachs from 1998? I hope you know those tachs are as RICEY as Altezza style tail lights and aluminum trunk spoilers in this day and age. No...its not old skool....it's rice.

grumblemarc

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Sounds like an Autometer issue. Not a Civic or a Honda issue. Especially since we have NO CLUE what car this is even for.
Sounds like you answered your own question.

Draven8795

Now how did you know I have Altezza style lights on my car. Your good. I have the sales receipt from the previous owner the tach was actually purchased in 2003 so your a few years off.

This is a track only car, gutted with an h22 swap. If the tach works I'm going to keep it in the car and if its big... great the better I can just quick glance at it.


I'm just wondering if anyone else has ever had the problem of a distributor going out and possibly frying an after market tach. So if anyone has let me know and then i will know for certain this is possible.

Obviously I'll be tach hunting shortly I just want to know if that is the possible cause. Check engine light came on same time tach quit working.

NVturbo

If want a cleaner look, you can grab the blue tach wire that is found @ the gauge cluster. For the money, why don't you just get an Autometer shift light. It does come with rpm shift pills. That looks way better than a "2003" monster tach. LOL

Draven8795

Tried the wire by the firewall and on the cluster there must be a short someplace in the wiring. So instead of trying to sort that out I just grabbed the line of the distributor while I was testing with a known good tach.

I'd like to see RPM when I'm on the track.