tachometer info update for tech library

[lilrebelranger67]

on 1995-97 rangers no matter which cluster you have, you do not have to put any wires through the fire wall, take your cluster out, the wide, white connector in the back of the cluster has two wires (on mine they were yellow and tan, and yellow and black) you can simply splice the green wire into the yellow and tan wire. and for the other wires you can splice into your radio. white wire can be spliced into the dimmer and the red wire can be spliced to 12 volt igntn/accesory. simply ground the black wire and ta da you have a working tachometer. info given was for an autometer phantom II mini monster that i mounted on my dash. took about maybe 45 minutes to an hour to finish including taking out and putting back the intrument cluster. just thought that this would be a helpful addition to the tach info in the library. edit: autometer recommends a 4 amp 3awg inline fuse for the red wire so thats what i used for mine

 

[Z3CHYD]

This'll help me when i want to put a tach in my 97, i was planning on putting a bunch of wire thru the firewall....thanks for the warning!!

 

[Jim Oaks]

Updated. Thanks!

 

[mjonesjr]

If you have a '95-'03 Ranger without a tachometer, you can also swap in a '95-'03 Ranger or '95-'01 Explorer cluster with a tachometer without doing any modifications or a "ricer" style tachometer. The '95-'03 Ranger and '95-'01 Explorer tachometer clusters are a plug and play swap.