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Old 10-05-2009, 08:13 AM
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Default Tach needle goes crazy

ok guys lets see if you can help with this one, I star the engine and the needle goes up to 6,000 and comes back boobles for a while and when the engine come to idle it settles.... I press the gas and it goes all crazy all the way up and down.

While driving the needle goes down to 0 (when my foot is on the gas) if I take it off it will show the correct (i'm guessing because of the sound) number of revs... what could this be... is there a plug in the engine that might be loose? if so where is it...

any other Ideas?? I'm shure STL can shed some light on this...

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Old 10-06-2009, 08:10 AM
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Anyone??? I could really use some help here guys...
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Old 10-06-2009, 09:17 AM
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dose it have a cam position sensor? if so its going out if not i am stumped
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Old 10-06-2009, 09:55 AM
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.. dude I have no Idea what that is..."cam position sensor" ...
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Old 10-08-2009, 11:45 AM
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ya it on some of the bigger motors of fords just not to sure about yours
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Old 10-08-2009, 02:32 PM
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oh ok..... the needle drives me crazy, I just might put a gauge... and forget about the one in the dash.......
anyone knows where the one in the dash gets connected to the engine??? I'm pretty sure it's something easy like a bad connection 'cause it works sometime... if I;m not going either too fast or on a bumpy road
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