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RE: Tach drive gear

To: <DaCRANEz@aol.com>, <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Tach drive gear
From: "Navarrette, Vance" <vance.navarrette@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:52:47 -0700
        Mike:

        A quick check only shows one dizzy drive gear for the tach. Is
your tachometer trying to tell you something (e.g. your car is *slow*?
Bwuh-hah-hah-haaaah! Couldn't resist.).
        What makes you think the tach is low? Do you have a dwell or
other meter to compare it with? If you are checking it against MPH,
could your speedo be off or your diff gearing be non standard?
        There ARE two different tachometers for the TR6 - one for North
America, and one for the rest of the world (the PI tachometers). Since
the PI used a different dizzy than the NA TR6s.... Is it possible that
you have a PI tachometer?

        Vance


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of DaCRANEz@aol.com
Sent: July 24, 2006 10:11 AM
To: 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: Tach drive gear

I recently had the tach cable seize. This resulted in the distributor
drive 
gear eating the tach drive gear. As there seems to be no availability 
domestically for the gear. 
 I bought a used 22D to obtain  the part. While I was at it I took the
tach 
into a local speedo shop for service. Now that I have it back together
my tach 
reads 1000 rpms too low. The speedo shop calibrated the tach to 355to1
as 
indicated on the tach face. Is there the remote possibility that there
is more 
than one gear ratio for the tach drive? I installed a new tach cable and
lubed it 
generously and checked routing to eliminate the cable as a possible
culprit. 
TIA
Mike Crane  '71 TR6




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