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Old 06-07-13, 04:12 PM
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I have a little strange problem with my tachometer. it shows a few thousand rpm error.
at idle, the 200 rpm and at full throttle it stops at about 4500 rpm, but the engine going until the rev limiter as usual
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Just try tapping it, if that doesn't work try cleaning your connections
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I second that.. prolly the motor is going out. I had a SC400 that had that problem. Swapped the motor and good to go. Also check to see if the needle is fully secured and not on too tight. Cant be but a few things here.
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what motor?
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The motor in the cluster that moves the needle.
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I have a spare cluster if you want it.
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