TheRktmn

Not really. If you unplug the tach and use an ohm meter across the two leads you should get resistance. If no resistance the board is...

I'm in the same boat. I'm leaning toward a BendPac HD-9STX, but I just can't decide...

As an option, you can send your broken stock tach to rocket man classic cougar, (site supporter) to have the guts replaced with modern...

If you don't want to convert yours, I do have a few working originals. If you are partial to yours (wear,patina, fading, etc) you can...

A 460 in a 71-73 Mustang is a bolt-in. It was designed for it. My wife drove her 71 Mach 1, 460 eight years, till it got rearended the...

This is likely the biggest reason I enjoy our hobby so much. Any time I work on one of our vintage pony cars, tinker with on, or drive...

Yes, they really were the “good old days”,

I was "in competition" with a really sharp, and fairly experienced fellow student at the school I learned auto repair from (Los Angeles...

Back in high school we (the guys in auto shop) would sneak out and replace a buddy's coil wire with a piece of like booted vacuum hose...

I try to use the KISS rule whenever possible. When I had an MSD-6AL I grounded the unused Crank Sensor (white) wire through a hidden...

Ah, crap - I forgot which forum I was in. Mine applies to 65-69 models with metal back panels. +1 for bad printed circuit card. (insert...

The 7123 dash clusters are plastic and if a post touches the housing, there is no short. The problem of gauge shorting is most...

Make sure that the fuel gauge is mounted correctly. There are small cutouts on each side of the stud girdle that align with tabs on...

I can do the tach in 6 or 8 cyl, 6K or 8K RPM. (Regarding the GM HEI distributor - there's a reason Chevrolet hid that piece of...

I've never seen a stock 6-cyl tachometer but I wonder if @TheRktmn may be able to build one. It would be a conversation piece at car shows!