John, what year car?

On the 1987 & later cars the crank sensor is at the REAR of the engine.
On 1984-86 cars the distributor sends the signal.

The tach signal comes from the ignition module. IF the engine is running then the crank sensor/distributor isn't at fault for the tach being INOP.

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