Hood Mounted Tachometer (Obv. Not Stock)

kursplat said

going to take a guess and assume the car is a v8 since the tach is set to v8? trace out the wiring and see if everything is good. since you have the connectors easy to get to, i'd make up a quick set of jumpers and hook it up. you'll have tach signal, ground, power, light. do you have the instructions?

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I literately just unhooked it off the car and took photos of it in the process before I uploaded them here. I made the decision last night to just take it completely apart and found out that the spring inside is completely rusted and fused to the copper coils. Looks like it got some water in it somehow...not sure since it hasn’t seen rain in 30 years.

I found a replacement unit from another thread that’s available on Amazon for $200, so I think I’ll buy that and marry the two together.

Will update this post when the new one arrives.