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1970 tach

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Hello everyone, I have a 70 runner with the factory tach/clock tic tic, I have a MSD ignition and at the time installed a MSD tach filter which lasted only a few minutes, then my tach quit, so now I replaced it with one of Herbs electronic tachs which was supposed to work with a MSD, well it jumps around so much I can't tell you what my RPM is, I pulled it back out and sent it back, they did "something" it worked but still was jumping, and now it's back to jumping so bad I can't even read it again (after a couple days) and Herbs will no longer acknowledge me.
 
That sucks, sounds like there might be some electrical issues going on perhaps that is affecting the tach, have you tried an aftermarket tach?
 
My did that with the Rev-N-ator box. Switched back to the chrome box and all is good. Don’t know why.
 
None of the tic-toc-tachs, factory or aftermarket are compatible with any aftermarket electronic ignition to my knowledge. Unless they have been upgraded with a different circuit board inside the tach. I have msd ignition on mine with a firecore dizzy. Repro tic-toc-tach and an msd tach adapter, this combo works on mine.
 
Try an email to rt-eng.com. They might know if their circuit board solution will work.
A real long shot is to take a 10K resistor in series with the tach signal and see if it will settle.
I have some msd tach videos I could send you if interested.
 
That’s the exact one I have, it is not compatible with electronic ignition unless you run a tach adapter.
 
I have a tach adaptor to run my MSD 6al2 on my factory tic toc tach, and it works fine.
 
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