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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:29 am 
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Hey Guys

My Tacho meter is going stupid when the car is going
When im driving around town it cant make up its mind where to sit, like it flick s up then down then back up

Today when i drove to work sitting on the cruiser at 110 it showed zero

i think theres a loost wire somewhere but i dont know where to look on the engine or wherever it may be
Is someone able to direct me to where i might find it?!

94 Falcon EF

P.S The car runs absolutly fine,its just that now i know the tacho is playing up i cant keep my eye of it!

 

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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:44 am 
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my thinking is your diagnoisis is correct a loos wire is the fault :)

pull the cluster out and have a look?

or a wiring diag might help

 

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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:44 am 
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Your tacho is controlled by the ECU, since you have a EDIS setup.. I would say check your loom, but if you haven't touched anything then it should be fine.



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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:01 am 
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I need better information what loom am i looking for and where can i find it?

Is it on the Tranny or the Engine, inside the car?

 

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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:26 am 
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The ECU is behind the kick panel on the passenger side (interior), the loom goes from there, and runs up behind the dash into the instrument cluster.


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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:49 am 
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I would just run a new wire from the original pickup, through the firewall and then use the pinout diagram for the cluster, cut the tacho feed wire and soler your new wire to it on the cluster side. This saves you checking everywhere for a fault and it wont have a negative effect on your ECU.
however if you car is a GLi then someone would have previously installed the sports cluster and probably did a dodgy job soldering/wrapping/splicing ect so just pull out the cluster and fix it.

Pinout diagrams can be found in the tech docs section
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:51 am 
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If when you painted your cluster you had to pull it out then you probably disrupted the wires and that could be the solution to your problems
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:41 am 
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i was actually thinkin that blu falc

i will have a look tnight?

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:16 pm 
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Well had a look pulled the dash apart and wriggled the wiring loom that goes into the instrument panel

Went on and off so its a faulty wire like you thought

Thanx everyone for the help

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