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Make sure you have power going to the tach (usually fed by the keyswitch - purple wire).
Make sure the "signal" wire is connected (grey wire).
Make sure the Tach has a connected ground wire (black wire).
Make sure the Tach is set to the correct number of poles (if it's an aftermarket/multi-model tach).
If everything looks good under the dash and you confirm it has power and ground then you have to start tracing the tach wire back through the harness to the motor and make sure nothing is broken, chaffed, pinched etc. The easy way would be to simply check for continuity between the engine and the wire at the gauge (you can with an ohm meter if you have leads that will stretch far enough - just looking for no or near no resistance).
If all that checks out you probably have a bad gauge.
Make sure you have power going to the tach (usually fed by the keyswitch - purple wire).
Make sure the "signal" wire is connected (grey wire).
Make sure the Tach has a connected ground wire (black wire).
Make sure the Tach is set to the correct number of poles (if it's an aftermarket/multi-model tach).
If everything looks good under the dash and you confirm it has power and ground then you have to start tracing the tach wire back through the harness to the motor and make sure nothing is broken, chaffed, pinched etc. The easy way would be to simply check for continuity between the engine and the wire at the gauge (you can with an ohm meter if you have leads that will stretch far enough - just looking for no or near no resistance).
If all that checks out you probably have a bad gauge.
that happened to me too haven’t fixed it yet
Me too!
Jeff