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I searched and searched for a solid answer to what wire do i hook my tach wire too. I didn't want to go buy an sr5 cluster and i already had the tach. I found loads of threads about hooking it to the wire on the coil with no power on it. I found this hard to figure out as everything i probed had power. I also noticed that in most of the pictures people posted they had a little green connector next to the ignitor to plug in to. My truck didn't have this. So i kept searching and finally google'd and found a schematic. I then found the correct wire. So here is a photo of said wire. Hope this clears it up for the next person.
Coming off the connector where i have the splice. Its the only solid black wire. All the other wires have some sort of color stripe but the tach wire is the only solid black.
yea i wish mine had that style ignitor coil thing but it doesnt... it doesnt have the old school style pos./neg. terminal can shape coil part...
doesnt have the service connectors either
Last edited by SalRanger2; 07-28-2012 at 08:51 PM.
The first illustration shows an old style coil. The 2nd shows a coil pack. It shows how to connect to both styles. It's hard to tell from your original pic, only judging by the plastic dust cover around the coil wire(to distributor), but it does look like the "can" type coil. Either way you have directions to hook up either style coil...
lol lemme help you out!
Do you see where that black wire over my ISR pipe? on do you see my green wire for my tach?? thats where you would put the green wire for your tach.
Originally Posted by Marc
You can also connect it to the IG terminal on the test connector by the fuse block in the engine compartment.
Originally Posted by lonewolve
Will this also work if i get a tach an wire it like in the pics on my 3.0?
Hope this might help you out some. I Don't know much about the 3.0
The first illustration shows an old style coil. The 2nd shows a coil pack. It shows how to connect to both styles. It's hard to tell from your original pic, only judging by the plastic dust cover around the coil wire(to distributor), but it does look like the "can" type coil. Either way you have directions to hook up either style coil...
but mine isnt old enough to have the service style coil pack like that with those green caps..
ill take a pic and show you guys what ive got
I know this is an old thread, but I thought I would add on since it is the only one that seemed to match my setup. I have the strange two-part coil pack.
However, when following the instructions above, my digital tachometer was jumping all over the place. After testing the various wires, mine turned out to be the bottom right wire (which is not the solid black wire) when looking from the firewall toward the front of the truck.
Interestingly, this did not correspond with the green wire that comes out of the other side, but a gray wire, seen here:
This was confirmed correct with the tachometer built into my digital timing gun. Hopefully this helps someone else out there!
Last edited by Set to Stun; 02-19-2018 at 02:48 PM.
11-12-2011, 11:22 AM
