tabetha

I am getting a bit peed off with me tacho, having a mind of it's own, I was going to renew all the electronic parts with decent stuff that worked but thought about a different tacho.
I've now got a tacho from a mk2 grandad ghia V6 to use.
Has anyone else swapped theirs out and what did you use ?
I like the grandad one as the pointer starts at the 5 o'clock position and goes clockwise with 6000rpm being at the 12 o'clock position, only annoying thing is the redline at around 5700, and the tacho mechanism only goes to around 7300rpm which is where my soft cut limiter is, but still better imo.
So what have you lot done ?
tabetha

Tev

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i used a mondao v6 rev counter, it was a easy swap,

and the rev counters actually quite a lot bigger

KSA-Cossie

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I bought a stack one but matt baxter used a v6 one.

tabetha

I've got a piccie of the mondy one grafted in, looks nice and factory, I just have always liked the xr3 type same sort as mk2 granny where the pointer is at bottom.
I did notice on the piccie I have the mondy one is a bit bigger, the granny one is almost exactly the right size.
The only awkward thing is the granny one is front lit, whereas the clock housing is back lit, so I'm just sitting it back a few mm, till I get the illumination right.
I would post a piccie of the granny rev counter but can't as I'm a computer dummy and don't know how, it never works for me!!
I ran the rev counter on me desk and it works fine, I think the 3 connections are even in the same place as the cossie clocks.
tabetha

Matt Baxter

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As Kev has said I have a mondeo one in mine (although its from a 2.0)


Almost looks factory

tabetha

That's the piccie I have, of Matt's one, does look factory.
I am looking at some dac's, the R-2R ladder ones to fix the crap std sierra ones as well, might as well have a tinker see what I can blow up!!
tabetha

Rollin Rides

how easy was this to do? got an old mondy laying around
cheers dave

Matt Baxter

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very easy mate but I have only done this because I couldnt get the oe tacho to work with the coil pack

Glenn_

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I like the look of that too.Could you not of put the orange pointer on.

Matt Baxter

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I did try but it just wouldnt fit
I could just paint it but it doesnt bother me enough

KSA-Cossie

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Looks good as is matt.

mechanic28

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elliot 8k one

martysmartie

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Out of interest how come you have standard Sierra speedo?

Martin

Matt Baxter

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Its an old pic but I used it while I was looking for a new set of clocks as I had white dials when I first got the car