That reminds me. Tach doesn't work on this car. I haven't looked into it but isn't the pickup on the balancer?

The 85 is different. The 85 has a pickup on the flywheel, which sends a signal into a comupter in the passenger footwell.

The diagnostic plug and balancer pickup is still there, and will work but the tachometer is different itself so you would need to swap out an old one...

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