Went to carb, tach question
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Went to carb, tach question
So, I swapped out my TBI 305 for a carbed 350. Im using an HEI distributor thats vac advance. I got the proper ends to allow me to connect the battery and tach wires to the cap. I got the car started tonight but I have no tach. It doesnt move with the car running. I checked the connection at the cap and its good as well as the splice I made for the connector. Anyone have this problem. What can I do
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Verify you got the proper wire off of the original coil. White, I believe.
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Re: Went to carb, tach question
Yup Ive got white for tach and pink for battery. The car is running but I dont get anything from the tach. Not during start up or once its running
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Re: Went to carb, tach question
Fixed it, there was a connector. It might be an inline fuse on the white wire. For some reason the HEI wasnt sending the signal through it. I cut that out now I have the tach back.
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Re: Went to carb, tach question
I also went from a 305 to a carbed 350 with a HEI distributor and I'm having tach problems. exept when I bought the car there was no motor in it so I dont know witch wires to splice into. could you please help me with description or even better pics of these wires.
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Re: Went to carb, tach question
Ill grab you a pic today. Your going to want to look for a pink wire and a white wire. Pink goes to BAT and white goes to TACH on the HEI.
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Re: Went to carb, tach question
I found a plug that went to the coil i belive. It has two blades inside the plastic plug housing the wires coming out of it are Pink and White. Do I just connect the white wire to the TACH plug on my HEI and connect the Pink wire to to the BATT plug on my HEI. Car was a TPI 5.0 now carbed HEI 350.
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