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Anyone have an idea what would happen if on a 95, instead of cutting the tan yellow wire and connecting it to the rpm wire for the tach, you spliced into it? Would it read half rpm?

I had a similar issue with a tachometer from jegs for my 95, reading exactly half rpm. Something with the DIS waste spark ignition system, possibly part of your issue, I had to return the tach today because I couldn’t get it to work

60mph in 5th it’s reading 1000

Yeah I get that, when I take this one out I’m just going to pull the wires out of the dash and cut my connections and label them, then I can test my next one I get, does anyone have any recommendations?

Yes I’ve done all of this down to the atom. So I should set up a return?

Yea I’ve been to that exact website, if you read it and scroll down to the year of my truck you will see an explanation of what I did, on jegs tachometers there are purple or green and I tried both and only purple gives me a read

Right

Well I’ve done plenty of that and found which wire to splice and I spliced into the correct one, isn’t there only one rpm wire? It wouldn’t make sense to have multiple. If I’m getting any reading at all I must be on the right wire, right?

Yup

So what would this mean for me and my tach

What is a waste spark system?

Where would I find a gearing chart?

Hm does this mean it’s reading correctly and my rev limiter is set at 3k-something?

Is it normal for my truck to idle at 500 rpm??? This can’t be right, right? That’s one of the main reasons I thought it was reading half because my idle speed is so low and drops below 500 which isn’t even possible I’m pretty sure, right?

Pretty sure this is in the automatics only