Howdy doody all,
I have a 1991 Perkins TW6.354.4 6cyl - Non Marinized Diesel engine. At the moment she is in the processes of being rebuilt (Parts arrived today)
As you may or may not know, I am building my boat. As such, today I was designing my dash layout with the new sexy gauges I bought off the net.
Now ... I am in a spot of bother as I am not sure how I can hook up my Tacho. The gauge on the back has a switch that you can move to suit the amount of cylinders you have i.e. 4 cyl, 6 cyl, 8 cyl. From my experience working on cars, this switch is designed to tell the gauge how many pings to expect from the ignition coil thus creating a tach reading
Diesels don't have an ignition coil thus rendering this switch in operative in turn giving me no point to record a reading from which leaves me with no Tacho which I don't want.
I thought about fixing magnets to the harmonic balancer and have some sort of electrical thingy to record the magnet passes which effectively tricks the gauge into thinking the ignition coil is pinging at it and records the reading thus giving me a working Tacho.
What I want to know is
1. Has anyone encountered this problem and what did you do
2. Would my way of thinking work with the magnets
3. Has anyone got a better idea
Taking the gauge out of the cluster is not an option nor is putting it in and not hooking it up nor is buying a differently configured gauge.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Cheers
Hendo
iPad Forum Runner
I have a 1991 Perkins TW6.354.4 6cyl - Non Marinized Diesel engine. At the moment she is in the processes of being rebuilt (Parts arrived today)
As you may or may not know, I am building my boat. As such, today I was designing my dash layout with the new sexy gauges I bought off the net.
Now ... I am in a spot of bother as I am not sure how I can hook up my Tacho. The gauge on the back has a switch that you can move to suit the amount of cylinders you have i.e. 4 cyl, 6 cyl, 8 cyl. From my experience working on cars, this switch is designed to tell the gauge how many pings to expect from the ignition coil thus creating a tach reading
Diesels don't have an ignition coil thus rendering this switch in operative in turn giving me no point to record a reading from which leaves me with no Tacho which I don't want.
I thought about fixing magnets to the harmonic balancer and have some sort of electrical thingy to record the magnet passes which effectively tricks the gauge into thinking the ignition coil is pinging at it and records the reading thus giving me a working Tacho.
What I want to know is
1. Has anyone encountered this problem and what did you do
2. Would my way of thinking work with the magnets
3. Has anyone got a better idea
Taking the gauge out of the cluster is not an option nor is putting it in and not hooking it up nor is buying a differently configured gauge.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Cheers
Hendo
iPad Forum Runner