# Tach help **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [September 13, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932 "2008-09-13T17:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/1 "2008-09-13T17:33:55Z")
ok so. BREIF situation i have a problem with my tach, the sping broke. or w.e cause when i drive it jumps now. (like it gets stuck, then goes to designated rpm.) i have an extra FULL tach outta another 240. and that ones bad, meaning capaciter and something else on it is fried. how would i go about switching springs. since there 0% help on nico/240sxfourms/nissan sites. its all the same i swapped my motor not my tach dont work. and im not getting a aftermaket tach. ---
**Author:** ![Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mk4_30r_ban/32/6347_2.png) [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/2 "2008-09-13T17:38:32Z")
> [@Hooked on 240](#): > > ok so. BREIF situation > > i have a problem with my tach, the sping broke. or w.e cause when i drive it jumps now. (like it gets stuck, then goes to designated rpm.) i have an extra FULL tach outta another 240. and that ones bad, meaning capaciter and something else on it is fried. > > how would i go about switching springs. since there 0% help on nico/240sxfourms/nissan sites. its all the same i swapped my motor not my tach dont work. > > and im not getting a aftermaket tach. just an idea. buy another one from one of the many nissan classified sections on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![LKSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lksi/32/6316_2.png) [@LKSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LKSi)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/3 "2008-09-13T17:40:24Z")
> [@Mk4 30R](#): > > just an idea. buy another one from one of the many nissan classified sections on the internet. :+1, or just get another cluster… they can’t be that expensive ---
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/4 "2008-09-13T17:41:27Z")
thats where my extra one came from it just came in today. and it dosnt work at all. no signal to the tach, and the side is burnt on the board. and it wasnt likt that in the pics. i dont know whats going on with this guy. i plug my old one in and it works and does the same thing. > [@LKSwhy?](#): > > :+1, or just get another cluster… they can’t be that expensive why, when all i need is a spring or w.e for the tach. i dotn even use it, but id like it to work. just bugging me bigtime ---
**Author:** ![Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mk4_30r_ban/32/6347_2.png) [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/5 "2008-09-13T17:44:02Z")
if you dont use it put a blank off plate there… and if you got it like that, id track that guy down and report him to a moderator and put a paypal refund request in(if you use paypal) or you can tell the truth and just say you fried it… ;D ---
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/6 "2008-09-13T17:45:56Z")
i took it outta the box and it was like that. but i emailed him at 1, nohting yet. ---
**Author:** ![Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mk4_30r_ban/32/6347_2.png) [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/7 "2008-09-13T17:46:26Z")
its a weekend i wouldnt respond either. ---
**Author:** ![Boxersix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxersix/32/6327_2.png) [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/8 "2008-09-13T17:52:59Z")
I can’t say for sure with you nissan guys, but if you mess with the return spring on the mechanism you mess with the calibration of the gauge as well. Best to just get a refund or replacement from the guy. ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/9 "2008-09-13T17:54:55Z")
It could be a lose wire. If you know what needs to be replaced (capacitor ect) I could solder a new one in. I had a lose wire and my tach was acting just like you described. ---
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/10 "2008-09-13T17:58:04Z")
> [@Boxersix](#): > > I can’t say for sure with you nissan guys, but if you mess with the return spring on the mechanism you mess with the calibration of the gauge as well. Best to just get a refund or replacement from the guy. Was waiting for you to respond. Ya im gunna goto williams or something and pay 3000 for a tach. cause hes the only one that has a parts 91-94 240. Steve: I know its the spring… all the wires are fine, ive been out there all day with a testor. ---
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/11 "2008-09-18T06:11:05Z")
fuck the tach in the dash, get an aftermarket one, you dont need a gigantic one get a little one and put it on your steering colum, more accurate that the stock one. ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/12 "2008-09-18T06:37:04Z")
> [@Shady](#): > > fuck the tach in the dash, get an aftermarket one, you dont need a gigantic one get a little one and put it on your steering colum, more accurate that the stock one. yeah and then when you swap in the RB you won’t have to mess with the tach again, you could just set the aftermarket one to 6 cylinders. ---
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/13 "2008-09-19T18:36:57Z")
> [@Shady](#): > > fuck the tach in the dash, get an aftermarket one, you dont need a gigantic one get a little one and put it on your steering colum, more accurate that the stock one. This is the ONLY thing ill ever put on my column. My cars are not ghetto rigged. period. Trying to find one of these. [http://www.nippon-seiki.co.jp/defi/product/vsdx/vsdx\_top.html](http://www.nippon-seiki.co.jp/defi/product/vsdx/vsdx_top.html) This is Broadfeild on NICOCLUB. Hes Dubbed “interior King” for many reasons this is his defi cluster and i want to make one just like it, just not all defi, cuz its like 1700+ for what i want to do. > **[\*\*\*\*Broadfield's New Interior Mods\*\*\*\* - Nissan Forum | Nissan Forums](https://forums.nicoclub.com/broadfield-s-new-interior-mods-t264243.html)** But for now its the SOHC whole Clutser FTW!!! goes upto 115, plus i bought some bulbs for a color change ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/14 "2008-09-19T18:46:00Z")
I didn’t know a SOHC cluster will work with a DOHC motor? Isn’t the tach signal slightly different or something? ---
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/15 "2008-09-19T18:50:39Z")
> [@ninety1two40](#): > > I didn’t know a SOHC cluster will work with a DOHC motor? Isn’t the tach signal slightly different or something? some messing around with some wires and i got it to work!. well for now i got the old tach back in til i figure out what im doing with my car. Suppose to be picking up a 93 coupe 2tone seafoam grean/charcol SE 5spd for 900. has rust, normal places. w/e. i got a million things going on. ---
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/16 "2008-09-21T15:33:45Z")
Dude seriously, theres nothing Ghetto rigged about a small tach on your steering colum. The one on my dash isnt ghetto rigged, I ran the wires as clean as I could without cutting into the dahs threw the defrost vents on the side, there maybe a inch of wire visiable, and the shift like was ran underneath the steering colum… You need function right now not looks, worry about making it look SWEEET JDM after your car is running right and setup how you want. ---
**Author:** ![91teg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91teg/32/6304_2.png) [@91teg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91teg)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/17 "2008-09-21T15:42:19Z")
> [@Hooked on 240](#): > > This is the ONLY thing ill ever put on my column. My cars are not ghetto rigged. period. > Trying to find one of these. [http://www.nippon-seiki.co.jp/defi/product/vsdx/vsdx\_top.html](http://www.nippon-seiki.co.jp/defi/product/vsdx/vsdx_top.html) > > This is Broadfeild on NICOCLUB. Hes Dubbed “interior King” for many reasons > this is his defi cluster and i want to make one just like it, just not all defi, cuz its like 1700+ for what i want to do. > > [http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=264243&page=1](http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=264243&page=1) > > But for now its the SOHC whole Clutser FTW!!! goes upto 115, plus i bought some bulbs for a color change the guy who did that has his own store…buy that gay ass thing in the link from him seeing how thats obv how he got it…as for a aftermarket tack being ghetto :idiots…what wires did you mess with to get the sohc tach to work with the dohc motor ??? ---
**Author:** ![91teg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91teg/32/6304_2.png) [@91teg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91teg)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/18 "2008-09-21T16:34:44Z")
> [@91 teg](#): > > the guy who did that has his own store…buy that gay ass thing in the link from him seeing how thats obv how he got it…as for a aftermarket tack being ghetto :idiots…what wires did you mess with to get the sohc tach to work with the dohc motor ??? ---
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/19 "2008-09-21T16:41:34Z")
just because he has his own store, dosnt mean i cant do it. Its not hard to make the houseing outta the sterring wheel column, cut hole, measure, bondo, primer, textered paint. bam done. WHY would i want another tach, when i can fix/replace the one in my cluster. 2 tachs? stupid. and if you mess with the cluster wireing itself and not the harness, soder/unsoder, and put 3 wires in to the left side of the cluster you can make it work. but i took the SOHC tach out. took out the spring, and put it in my dohc tach. so probelm solved > [@Shady](#): > > Dude seriously, theres nothing Ghetto rigged about a small tach on your steering colum. The one on my dash isnt ghetto rigged, I ran the wires as clean as I could without cutting into the dahs threw the defrost vents on the side, there maybe a inch of wire visiable, and the shift like was ran underneath the steering colum… > > You need function right now not looks, worry about making it look SWEEET JDM after your car is running right and setup how you want. like when i got called a ricer driving your g20? ---
**Author:** ![91teg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91teg/32/6304_2.png) [@91teg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91teg)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932/20 "2008-09-21T16:45:27Z")
> [@Hooked on 240](#): > > just because he has his own store, dosnt mean i cant do it. Its not hard to make the houseing outta the sterring wheel column, cut hole, measure, bondo, primer, textered paint. bam done. > > WHY would i want another tach, when i can fix/replace the one in my cluster. 2 tachs? stupid. > > and if you mess with the cluster wireing itself and not the harness, soder/unsoder, and put 3 wires in to the left side of the cluster you can make it work. but i took the SOHC tach out. took out the spring, and put it in my dohc tach. so probelm solved > like when i got called a ricer driving your g20? no i was implying that if he has the store cant he get you the parts? [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tach-help/238932.md?page=2)