I am trying to find and purchase a good quality hand held tach to use in setting up my carbs fuel/air ratio. I am intrested in what hand held tachs everyone is using, where they bought them, what brand and model they are, and how you like them. Thanks
Silkworm

 

None. The one in the dash works good enough.

 

You mean dwell meter/tach?

Mine's so old & cheap, I wouldn't recommend it even if I could remember what it is, and assuming you could still find one. The tach only goes up to 1200 rpm, dual-range with one going up to 5000 much better (for setting total timing in non-CC applications).

 

the tach in my dash dosent work, and would be a little hard to read the indash tach while standing in front of the car setting the fuel/air ratio.
I have a dwell style hand held tach but dont like it and was hopeing someone might be able to point me in the direction of a hand held tach that has graduations from 0 to say 5-6k. I dont like the way the dwell style are set up

 

The Snap-On timing lights have a nice tach on them that I like to use, it makes tuning much simpler. The in dash tach is off a good 200-300 anyway and doesn't provide an accurate reading. If you have an old dash mount tach, mount it under the hood on the inner fender, that would also work well. Hope this helps.

 

I have a handheld that reads opticly off a piece of reflective tape placed on the pulley or edge of the balancer. You can get one from WW.Grainger's or Snap-On, Grainger's is cheaper.
I use mine for work (marine diesel mechanic) but it may be hard to justify the 150-300 price if all you want to do is set your A/F ratio I agree with the buy a cheap dash mount from the auto parts store and mount it under the hood.

Eric

 

thanks for the help guys

 

Man, that's why I love these boards. I was going to suggest buying a tach and rigging it up with a handle and clips for the leads, but that makes a lot more sense.

Now my only question is, do I put that hood-mount tach I've had sitting in the garage for a couple of years on the '57 and put the current dash-mount under the hood, or vice-versa?