Finally installing a Tach in the dash

[RED MONSTER 4X4]

Picked up a little 2 inch Tachometer from "Harbor Freight" I got it for a steal!
Decided to install it in place of the battery light which i will relocate to another location with an LED. i didn't want to have some big clunky Tach on the column or on the A frame this just took some modification(by modification i mean busting out a corner of the cluster lol. I like the OEM look of it but not a fan of the white gauge. Ohh well it was a cheap upgrade!

 

[Bowtie85]

Looks decent

I snagged a set of sun pro's and put em in my dash, I thought it was a neat idear

 

[Brian_D]

i shall do this as well someday

 

[lovebomb_69]

http://gmsportssalvage.com/?q=node/1530 this is what I want to do to swap out the one I nd ave on my dash.

 

[RED MONSTER 4X4]

http://gmsportssalvage.com/?q=node/1530 this is what I want to do to swap out the one I nd ave on my dash.

love that! But with my 91 electronic gauges I don't have that option! I did swap out my 1994 Corsica dash with one from a 1992 Beretta GT. Worked perfect.

 

[Blue85]

Factory tachs are hard to find. I created a gauge scale and put a Sunpro tach behind it. The hardest part was converting it to take the factory gas gauge needle. Then I found a small size gas gauge and moved that sender over to the empty slot.

This picture was the first round. Then I realized I didn't have to live with the silly 8k scale. I redrew the scale to 6k and flipped the switch on the sunpro board to 6-cylinder instead of 8. And I made it look a little more like the factory tach, but I don't have any pictures.

Nice clean looking cluster you have there, BTW.

 

[82355]

love that! But with my 91 electronic gauges I don't have that option! I did swap out my 1994 Corsica dash with one from a 1992 Beretta GT. Worked perfect.

I did it on a 1990. Of course I ditched the electric speedometer, but I could have made it work with the electric speedometer if I had wanted to.

Martin

 

[RED MONSTER 4X4]

Finally got this thing wired up and installed, and what a massive disappointment,
it looks great but is inaccurate as hell! The needle surges all over even with cruise on or steady pedal........bummer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9gOSQmscA&list=UUz0cYKnLZTYFDAzsNhviqBg&index=1

 

[michael0584]

Finally got this thing wired up and installed, and what a massive disappointment,
it looks great but is inaccurate as hell! The needle surges all over even with cruise on or steady pedal........bummer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9gOSQmscA&list=UUz0cYKnLZTYFDAzsNhviqBg&index=1

I had the same exact tach mounted the same way, it worked great. Maybe you got a defective one?

 

[RED MONSTER 4X4]

michael0584, any pics or video? and are you TBI or Carb?

 

[michael0584]

Tbi, sold the jimmy awhile back, but its in this video. Fast forward to about 2:15