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Old 04-13-2014, 01:57 PM
jaoneill jaoneill is offline
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Originally Posted by ah-kay View Post
Lessons learned here.
2) Never assume he/she messed up the car. You will lose your friendship. It is an old car so anything could happen.

Putting a radio in should not affect the tach if one knows what one is doing. It is so simple. The tach is partly controled by the Kilma. It may be a faulty kilma relay.
Thanks for the response; I understand what you're saying (old car, etc) and haven't even mentioned the problem to the borrower.

What I am trying to do here is not place blame but minimize the diagnostic time. I haven't looked to see where it originates but there is a cut wire hanging from under the dash. Everything appears to work except the tach so my question is: could/would that screw up a circuit that would affect the IP (idle speed)?

Jim
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