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1G '90 Tach Doesn't Work

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bostonhatcher

15+ Year Contributor
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Sep 28, 2006
Kansas City, Missouri
Tach is totally dead.

Here's what I know so far:

Brand new 90 coil pack and tach adapter from extremepsi.

Car runs great.

The 4-pin plug that the coil pack connects to on the engine harness has tight connections. (Tested by sticking a single male pin in each one)

The resistance of the tach wire from the 4-pin coil pack plug on the engine harness to the noise filter plug is 0.2 ohms.

I had an MSD box on the car a month ago and ran a wire off the "Tach Output" port on the side of the MSD box directly into where the noise filter normally plugs into and the tach worked perfect except above 5500 rpm (needed an MSD tach adapter to work at all rpm ranges). This means the wire from the noise filter plug to the tach is good and that the tach is good and working.

The car has a 90 tach (5 mph increments)

The car has a 90 Power Transistor.

The car has an AEM EMS V2 with 1990-1994 Eclipse coil pack selected in the setup wizard.

I've looped the noise filter plug and tried the noise filter which ohms out correctly (2.2 kohms)

I'M STUMPED!
 
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Tach doesnt read in mph. Please clarify. If you're talking about the speedometer it has nothing to do with coil or tach adapter
 
Tach doesnt read in mph. Please clarify. If you're talking about the speedometer it has nothing to do with coil or tach adapter

I was clarifying that the gauge cluster is in fact a 1990 tach because the speedometer reads in 5 mph increments.
 
I got the tach to work. I did a continuity test from the 4 pin plug (engine harness side) to the #12 pin on the gauge cluster and it had continuity but also had continuity to ground. So I did another continuity test from the noise filter plug to pin #12 on the gauge cluster and it was good with no ground. Somehow the wire is grounded out between the 4 pin plug and the noise filter. So I made my own wire from the 4 pin plug straight to the gauge cluster and it worked.
 
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