Originally Posted by
lostforawhile
hey,you probably have a bad tach, you can take the instrument cluster apart and swap it, do you know if it has an ND on the tach or it's the other one? I may have a spare. the tach simply reads - pulses off of the ignition module in the dizzy, you have a dx, so you should have the module built into the dizzy. it's very simple. there is also a resistor built into the coil, what it does is the coil is triggered by the - being interrupted by the ignition module, it has a wire that goes back into the car, the blue wire, this wire goes through a resistor inside of the coil first, then it's split , it goes to the instrument cluster, the emissions control computer under your seat, the fuel pump cut off relay, and the AC delay box next to the blower motor, it also goes to the multi function control box under the radio area, gray or black box with a large plug in the back. chances are if everything else is working, the tach itself is just bad, it's really easy to take out the cluster and swap it out, it's not even soldered in
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