zetec tach

[starjammir]

While wire is it that you tap into for a tach on a 99?
Thanks

[ButtonPuncher]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's white with a black stripe.

Any of you 98+ guys confirm this?


BP

[Drumnut]

While wire is it that you tap into for a tach on a 99?
Thanks

Here's something I wrote up a long time ago about my tach installation. I've bolded where you find the tach signal from the PCM. I'm not sure if it applies to anything other than a Zetec ATX.
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If your car does not have the tach wire Ford so graciously left behind for some tach-less 'Tour owners here's the procedure.

First you'll need to add a wire to the plug on the driver's side of the instrument cluster (the longer of the two plugs). Leave enough length on the free end of the wire to run through the firewall and back across the car...probably about 8-10 feet to be safe. The wire will need to be inserted in the 8th slot in the plug (counting up from the bottom) such that it will contact the pins when the plug is inserted into the new cluster. Don't worry, the pressure of the snapped-in plug will hold it.

Run the free end of the wire through a grommet in the firewall (I used the one next to the brake pedal pivot). Run the wire behind the firewall insulation over to the PS reservoir. Slide out the PS reservoir (it may need a little prying). Unscrew the 10mm bolt holding the PCM connector in. Once you have the connector in hand, begin to CAREFULLY unsnap the dust cover off the connector. Look for pin 48 (white/black stripe wire). Remember that you count down from 52, so this should be the 5th wire in from the end. This is where the tach signal comes from. There are pin numbers at the beginning of each row, starting with 52 on this particular row. Take one of those quick-snap splicing thingies (the one's that don't require cutting into the wire) and place it around wire 48. Insert your tach wire (trimmed to the appropriate length), and crimp closed. Snap on the dust cover, and bolt the PCM connector back down. Replace the PS reservoir. Start the car and you should have a properly functioning stock tach! If it should not operate the first time, the problem is more than likely the wire you fed into the plug on the cluster. I had to redo it a time or two to get it right.
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[AliasJerk]

anybody? I want to know what wire is the tach signal wire in the stock harness that plugs into the cluster. I want to check to see if I have the wire or not.

[alex894]

Where do you get your tachs from?

I found this, http://www.deftracing.com/prosport_g...0Blue_52mm.htm , what do you think of it?

[AliasJerk]

Where do you get your tachs from?

I found this, http://www.deftracing.com/prosport_g...0Blue_52mm.htm , what do you think of it?

I got mine form Ebay, but I decided I wanted to make the interior look stock. I will sell it to you for $20 shipped if you want.

[alex894]

I got mine form Ebay, but I decided I wanted to make the interior look stock. I will sell it to you for $20 shipped if you want.

I tried keeping it stock but I can't find a good console with a tach for my 98 zetec that works; I need a tach.

any pics?

[striker2]

how about any mystiques? IIRC they all came with tachs

[AliasJerk]

how about any mystiques? IIRC they all came with tachs

yes they did, thats why I found a cluster out of a 99 mystique that I might pluck...

Although I don't know if I want to dick around with the whole odometer crap.

I tried keeping it stock but I can't find a good console with a tach for my 98 zetec that works; I need a tach.

any pics?

I can get you some tomorrow. The tach is in my car.

[striker2]

yeah swapping the odometer in is kind of a PITA

if you have a GPS unit of some kind that makes it 10X easier