My 95SR has had many problems so far but being as it has almost 200K miles on it I would expect nothing less and nothin I cant handle <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> But probably the most anoying issue has been the tach. Since i bought this rig the tach has been intermittent, it would work for about 20 miles after the first start up of the day and never again for the rest of the day. Recently it has stoped working all together, and will work only for a few seconds after startup about once a month. I tried taking out the guage cluster and inspecting the conections, i even sprayed some contact cleaner on them resulting in no improvement. Now im looking through the repair manual to try to find where it gets its readings from, maybe i have a bad sensor. However im leaning towards a bad gauge becauose im pretty sure it uses either the crank sens or the cam sens for its engine speed reading and if either of those are bad the engine wont run.
I could realy use some inpute and maybe just a little brain storming with you guys as no one where i live has one of these rigs or knows anything about them.
Thanks in advance Dave-

It looks like you can connect an external tachometer to the harness of the tack signal output to see if it's the gauge. My tach signal looks to be taken off the power transistor. The tach also has a ground connection which you might try by-passing to a new ground to test for good ground. There is also a power wire from the ignition switch to the tach. I think you'll need a wiring diagram, but with input from other members you should be able to trace this.

On a 95, the signal wire from he power transisor to the gauge looks like one straight run, with a wire branching off to the ecu for the ecu tach signal. I would assume if the harness was bad, except at the harness/back of panel connector, you would have bad engine running. I'd hit the pullapart and see if I could find a used tach. No LC filter in this setup like the 12v motor...

Thaks so much for the input guys! i didnt even think to hook up an external tach to test. I think i will hit up the pick-a-part on monday for a tach, if nothing else at least i know i can elimiate the tach as the source of the prob, and hopefully thats all it is.