How do you hook up a tachometer to a motorcycle?

How do you hook up a tachometer to a motorcycle?

How to Wire a Motorcycle Tachometer Remove the tachometer from the packaging. Use the included hardware to attach the tachometer to the handlebars of your motorcycle. Run the receptor and ground wires down the handlebars and frame of the motorcycle to the engine, near where the spark plugs connect to the cylinder head.

How to install a tachometer on a Harley Davidson?

Tachometer installation? Please can you guys help with this? It only came with 3 wires: Red (pos), Black (neg) & pink (signal?) I attach the positive to the lights fuse and the pink to the coil front cylinder, according to the service manual is the blue/orange cable all the way to the right:

What’s the RPM on a Harley Davidson tach?

If you are running a dual fire (both sides fire at the same time ) which is how harley usually does it , you can just pick up off the hot side of coil Most aircraft tachs only read to 3000 rpm, and the Sporty will crank up a lot more RPM, whats the scale on the tach?

Do you need tach adapter for analog tach?

Hooking up the tach to one coil lead will cause your analog tach to read 1/2 the crankshaft RPM since your only connecting to one coil. You need to use both coils for an input, meaning your gonna need a tach adapter. Does the same hold true if I’m using a digital tach instead of analog? And what is a tach adapter? Thanks.

What’s the 3wire on a Harley Davidson tach?

The tach harness that came from Harley was wired wrong and blew my abs module. The dealer techs scratched their heads to make the 3wire work with no success. I think the 3wire is for early models, the 7wire is for later models.

Tachometer installation? Please can you guys help with this? It only came with 3 wires: Red (pos), Black (neg) & pink (signal?) I attach the positive to the lights fuse and the pink to the coil front cylinder, according to the service manual is the blue/orange cable all the way to the right:

Is the tach on a 2008 Harley Davidson?

My instructions are rev. 06-15-2004 and I’m afraid they aren’t current for the 2008 bike. The tach is not receiving the engine speed signal, but, the power is on. Problably has something to do with which # connection is the tach signal.

Hooking up the tach to one coil lead will cause your analog tach to read 1/2 the crankshaft RPM since your only connecting to one coil. You need to use both coils for an input, meaning your gonna need a tach adapter. Does the same hold true if I’m using a digital tach instead of analog? And what is a tach adapter? Thanks.

Where is the tach on a Harley Davidson Speedo?

As it turns out the #3 pin location is still the proper tach signal connection. It works perfect. Also, I mounted the tach with a special mount connected to the Chrome Dash above the Speedo….it looks great!

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