The inventor is unknown for a tachometer. However, the first documented use of a tachometer device was by the German engineer Dietrich Uhlhorn in 1817. He is credited with its first use, but not necessary as being its inventor.
Remove the instrument panel cover. Remove the tachometer retaining screws. Remove the tachometer cable from the back of the tachometer. Reverse the process to install the new tachometer.
you need a tachometer
In order to install a tachometer on your 1987 Monte Carlo SS, you must first find the tachometer wire by using an automotive diagnostic tool. Mount the tachometer on the dashboard. Connect green, red, black, and white wires to the distributor, ignition power, cigarette lighter, and headlights, respectively. Turn on the engine to test if the tachometer works.
The Mazda tachometer and the speedometer have separate cables. The tachometer cable probably does not work properly. Change the tachometer cable.
The tachometer cable may be faulty. The tachometer sensor, on the side of the engine might not be functioning properly.
You can perhaps buy a used portable tachometer by going on to www.amazon.com
Here's a site where you can buy a handheld tachometer: http://www.checkline.com/tachometers/
you dont need to cause it has a factory tachometer
To install a tachometer first determine where the tachometer will be mounted on the dash column. Then, use a flathead screwdriver to tighten the clamp around the column of the tachometer mount. Next, put the two red "trigger" wires through the firewall and connect the other ends to the coil wires of the distributor. Wrap the tachometer wire around the ignition coil bolts. The remaining two wires must be wired into the ignition of the car. Insert them into the power terminal of the fuse box which permits the tachometer to operate when the engine is on.
A tachometer and an auto-meter is an instrument measuring the rotation speed of a car or a motor. An auto-meter is more accurate and reliable than a tachometer.
a tachometer, wire and wire terminals