Date:         Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:08:06 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
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From:         Mark Drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Tach Compatability?
Comments: To: Budd Premack <bpremack@MN.RR.COM>
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I have used Golf/Jetta/Quantum tachs in Vanagon tach clusters with no
problems. You need to make sure that the donor has the fuel and temp
gauges in the lower face like the Vanagon tach. You don't need to pull
the needle off but you do need to swap the back case of the tach for the
Vanagon back case. The space between the tiny screws that holds the face
dial to the case may vary a slight amount and if so I just flex the
threaded face support towers a little until the 2 tiny face screws go in.

Mark



Budd Premack wrote:

>Can a 1990 Vanagon tach be used in an instrument cluster from a 1984/85 Vanagon that originally contained a tach?
>
>Could a tach from another VW (Jetta, for example) be used, as long as it is physically the same?
>
>Budd Premack
>88 Wolfsburg, 86 Syncro, 84 Westy
>Land of Sky-Blue Waters
>Minneapolis, MN
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