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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 10:50 AM
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aftermarket tach from a GMC for a dodge...

I have a tach from my 1991 GMC 350 V8 pickup. It is one of those little SunPro tachs, I believe. Is it possible to hook this up to the plug under the dash? If so, how?

I have yet to find the plug. Not because I can't find it but because of a lack of looking for it.

How many pins are in this plug? What are the functions of the wires? What wire does what?

Sorry I dont have any more info on the tach.


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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 07:08 PM
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TO my knowledge the isspro tach is the only one that will plug in under your dash and you have to buy a box that plugs in under the dash and goes to the tach.
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 07:40 PM
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gas tachs are not the same as diesel tachs. so it wont work.

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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 09:07 PM
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HMMM... There's an idea. If you could replace the numbers on the dial with 1/2 the values, 8 to 4, 6 to 3 etc... so that an 8000 rpm tach goes to 4000 instead and then did the electronics to get it to register it would be OK. I am an electronics engineer so I could probably figure it out but it would probably cost you as much to do it that way as if you'd just bought a diesel tach to begin with.

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