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Old Jul 21, 2012 | 01:11 AM
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tach not working after carb switch

I need help wiring the factory tach after switching to carb.
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Old Jul 21, 2012 | 04:19 PM
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Car: 1984 Z28 Hardtop
Engine: 383 Carb
Transmission: 4L60
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Re: tach not working after carb switch

What did you do with the factory tach wire?
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Old Jul 24, 2012 | 02:55 PM
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Re: tach not working after carb switch

The factory tach wire should have also ran to the coil. Did you hook up all the wires that went to the original coil?
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Old Jul 28, 2012 | 12:05 AM
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Re: tach not working after carb switch

Before I switched over to carb. I have a 6a msd box with a accel coil. after the switch I have the same but had to change the distributor to a msd to work with msd box.The only wiring I did was to buy the pigtail that pluged up to the opposite side on the msd box and went to the msd distributor..The other wires that came off the other end of the msd box went to the computer control distributor which are still in place.
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Old Jul 28, 2012 | 10:37 AM
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Re: tach not working after carb switch

Connect the factory tach wire to the tach terminal on the msd box.
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Old Aug 1, 2012 | 11:06 AM
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Re: tach not working after carb switch

ok, thanks
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