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Ok...General consensus says that same year/engine/transmission clusters should interchange between cars. It also says that only the 2000's had the tach signal wire deleted. Well, looks like Hector isn't the only one with problems.
Well...got a cluster from a '99 Mystique Zetec ATX. Put it in...tachy no worky. Did a search, found that the tach wire should come in on pin 8 of the drivers side connector...I have no wire, and my car is a '99. Did a further search and looked to see if I had the signal wire anywhere under the dash. (The message I read said it was a thin white/black stripe wire coming out of a green connector above the fuse panel) Doesn't appear that I have that either.
Well, I've added the wire to the cluster on pin 8. Is there any way to get a signal to the tach. There has to be a tach signal in there somewhere I can tap into, right?
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Ok....found another message from Hector that stated the black/blue wire (it's actually brown/blue on mine) going to the coil pack gives a tach signal. Spliced in to it...tach works, but only at 1/2 normal revs. Any thoughts?
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If you don't have the white/black out of the green harness, you may find it coming out if the computer. That would be at the firewall, engine-side, passenger-side. That's where the white/black comes from originally.
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Thanks, Kai...
Found that information in another search...gonna try it tomorrow when I have more daylight...
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hector and I ahd already found hooking it up off the coil didn't give a correct reading we also tried different resistors and couldn't get a change in the reading off the coil.
Joe Hartley "yes I know it's a MTX Zetec but it beats having a ATX Duratec" Champagne 96 GL MTX some mods dynoed at 114.2whp and 124.4wtq (pre CTA intake) 16.858 @ 80.76mph (yes it's slow but still faster than D Davis) AIM: ZetecRacing My Site My Profile
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Joe...
See my solution here...
http://www.contour.org/cgi-ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=33;t=001269
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saw it right after I posted it :p
Joe Hartley "yes I know it's a MTX Zetec but it beats having a ATX Duratec" Champagne 96 GL MTX some mods dynoed at 114.2whp and 124.4wtq (pre CTA intake) 16.858 @ 80.76mph (yes it's slow but still faster than D Davis) AIM: ZetecRacing My Site My Profile
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i ran mine through the firewall and attached it to a wire coming from the ignition coil.
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Originally posted by ZetecRacing:
hector and I ahd already found hooking it up off the coil didn't give a correct reading we also tried different resistors and couldn't get a change in the reading off the coil. It's a frequency signal, not a voltage signal, right?
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Originally posted by Paul Kienitz: Originally posted by ZetecRacing:
[b]hector and I ahd already found hooking it up off the coil didn't give a correct reading we also tried different resistors and couldn't get a change in the reading off the coil. You're right. The frequency changes as the RPM's increase and decrease.
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