On Wed, 19 Apr 95 00:24:24 CDT <unknown@unknown> said: >Somebody said: >I think this discussion has convinced me I need a tach. I have been >thinking that instead of paying $70 for that nice VDO tach that everyone >has, I would >try to find one in a junkyard. Maybe one from a Porsche 914, but those >are awfully big. Has anyone installed a tach from another car into their Van? i got a tach out of a scirocco and hand-fitted it into the 80 vanagon i had ... i don't recommend it for the faint-of-heart: it was a pain. but it had the correct fuel gauge (and an extraneous water-temp gauge) and i finally got it to work. be really careful of the needle ... i wound up with two tachs because of the ease of the needle in bending. :( but at $20 each, it wasn't so bad $-wise. lots of fitting, though. you vanagon types know that the later vanagons have a tach as standard, right? it might be possible to fit it to an earlier vanagon, and hand-wire it to the coil and power/ground (instead of needing that printed-circuit foil in the instrument pod). joel
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