Thread: tach help!
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Old 12-14-2008, 07:42 PM   #9
El Jay
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Re: tach help!

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Originally Posted by dave2953 View Post
How many wires come out of the tach? There should be black for ground, red for power and white for the light. What El Jay is saying is that you can tie that red power wire and white light wire together to the power source (12V) and kill two birds with one stone. There should be another wire that goes to the tachometer spade on the distributor (it's green if IIRC) My dizzy is an HEI and I'm not exactly certain how the tach would hook up to a points dizzy if in fact you have one.
Ed Zachary.
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