Tachometer hook up in a diesel pickup

[Team Loco]

can anyone hook up an aftermarket tach in a Diesel pickup?, my hilux, 2.8 without an ECU

[Anil_Sooknanan]

ah boy good one there i working on learning that right now you get a pulse from the pump but it can't go directly to the tach it has to go thru a convertor box first i'm trying to make a box or see if i could mod a gas one wich was used long ago if you get some one who did it let and me know i wanna see what trick they used can you make a pussie outa steel too?

[Team Loco]

thanks man! everyone insisting it can be hooked up, they just wanted me to buy from them

[VK-Sportsman]

talk to wagon r.......ah think he did get an Autometer Diesel specific tach

[wagon r]

^yep he did. sean check me and you'll see the entire ting.

[Team Loco]

can you make a pussie outa steel too?

things must be really bad for you to want that

[wagon r]

...but atleast it will work all year round and not answer back...

[Team Loco]

Yeah but it will always be cold and bald. And you will always have to shine it or else it will rust. Wtf we talking bout here?

[*Phoenix*]

WTF Indeed

[Anil_Sooknanan]

wtf the man say we make any thing outa steel so i asking tell me this would you want a woman if she didn't have that? or if they came seperate which would you take?? or and yes their is a special tach for diesel what i trying to do is make the normal gas one work on diesel too

[Team Loco]

Anil yuh good

[bleedingfreak]

This thread just confuse me Is a good thing I have a stock tach

[droppa]

so is there a converter to work a tach on a deisel engine.....

anyone find such ah thing......

[TheBoostLord]

well reason being a different tach for a diesel and gas is that in a diesel there is no ignition system so the tach has to be wired a different way. i think thats why not sure.

[biggy82]

This thread just confuse me Is a good thing I have a stock tach

X2

[Team Loco]

Showoff. Some of us just can't afford one biggy! Speedaholic, never got around to installing one

[wagon r]

okay! soo how it the diesel tech wired when it have no ECU!???

...the one i bought from Autometer uses a probe to read a signal off the alternator....

...it's a very straight forward install......hardest part is trying to figure out where yuh want to mount the tach....

[wagon r]

cyar remember....check summit.com ....it's where i bought mine.

[Greypatch]

erm wha about the steep poo-C fellas

[Anil_Sooknanan]

lol alyuh like sh!t there is a way to do it but just i don't have the time to try it. the connection fron the alternator will work with the normal tacho them. some alternators came with a star point behind it just to jack in the tacho wire. BTW fellas i got some diesel alternators for sale TD,QD, and 2C , 4D..,. it's interchangable with different makes

[Anil_Sooknanan]

well the advantage i have is that you could get it on sundays and on holidays ( yea the best times betsy does look to give up )

[l200]

hi 2nr's, I found this link hope it sheds some light on the topic. If any one tries and it works let me know, i already hav a tach to put in my car, but wouldn't mind putting it in my van..... so check out the link.


http://www.sw-performance.com/upload/11 ... 20Tach.pdf


http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/ ... prd128.htm

[Anil_Sooknanan]

the thing is that if your alternator starts to fail or you change to a replacement alternator. you will end up in some trouble. the reading may not be the same

[venum]

fellas tell me if allyuh cud help me here as we on teh topic of diesel tachs

my tach in my L200 acting strange

sometime it flickers while driving

it would sometime go to 0 like if teh engien not running and then just jump back to the correct rpm

when it isn't acting up, it works fine

sometime it flickkers, but under hard acceleration (up to 3000 rpm) it would stop flickering and then work properly, but as soon as teh rpm decrease, it starts flickering again

what allyuh think?

[wagon r]

sensor could need cleaning as the signal isn't as strong when at idle.....but works great when at full throttle....

[l200]

the thing is that if your alternator starts to fail or you change to a replacement alternator. you will end up in some trouble. the reading may not be the same

hi Anil, seeing that the turbo L200(k34) has a tach, do you or anyone else kno if the basic version has the same wiring. If so, i could probably get an original instrument panel from the turbo L200, and hook it up.

[venum]

^^^ if the alternator o the N/A 4D56 is teh same as teh turbo 4D56, which I suspect it is

then the altrnator may have provision for teh sensor, but not have teh actual sensor

as for the IP swap, it may not work

teh speedo on the K34 and K74 is mechanical

there is a cable from teh gearbox to teh IP

the N/A models have teh speedo in teh center of teh IP whereas the turbo models have the speedo off to one side, to allow space for the tach (which is electronic - at least on teh K74)

so if u were to swap the IP, the speedometer on teh turbo IP may not line up with the speedo cable on teh dash

understand

I have some pics from teh K74 IP from when I removed mine taht I can show u to better explain

[l200]

Thanks venum, understand fully, it was just a thought i was playing with.........so can the speedo cable be moved or is it fixed in position Post ur pics, any visual aid will help.

[venum]

this is what i mean



the white thing is teh speedo cable that connects into teh rear of teh IP

this is from a 2003 turbo K74T model, with the speedo at teh left of the tach



i believe that it can be moved as you can see the empty space in teh middle for teh N/A K74, K67 that have teh speedo in teh middle of teh IP

not sure bout the K34 though, but knowing MITSU, i believe taht it would be teh same

only way to know is to remove teh IP

[l200]

Thanks venum, that pic was really helpful, I'll try to open my IP up and post up the pics of the k34, and if the speedo cable is movable I think I would do the change over...... is it hard to remove???