hi, has anyone had or seen one in use , a taco with inbuilt oil temp and oil pressure guage. wot u think ? thanks greg

Yeah,
That could work.....

hth

not quite like that , but if u hungry umm.....................

If you got a chrome welded-chain steering wheel and a Mexican blanket car seat cover, you'd have a whole new look...

hth

something like this?
found using google img search

with this i would be wasting half the tach lol

some motor bike after market stuff have all the bits and bobs your after

mmm taco...

Have a look here www.westach.com
Lots of combined gauges mostly intended for aircraft but will work in a VW.

yea pretty much like the one in jshepherds pic [thanks] does anyone have or tried or seen one working

on ebay they have tachos with oil pressure and oil temp incorporated

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=79672 

Thats the link to my members ride bit, i have one, it works well, ive got the water temp in tinware so i can moniter the temp of around the heads, instead of cylinder head temp as this was much easier.

Oil pressure is hooked up in a t joint for the stocko and this one.

The volts is hooked up and works well.

The tacho goes good, got a switch for 4-6-8 cylinder motors and i can change the light of the background and set where my shift light comes on.

Only issue i had with it was it needed a corrector diode from dick smith in-line to get it to read accurately.

Pm joel for the part number, i cant remeber but they are only a couple of cents.

jus need a sombero,............... the diode was needed because the tac was innaccurate, what is a diode and how why/how does this fix the problem. did the tac already have a broken diode?????. also are internal guages easy to read with the tac needle bouncing around

Hi

I fitted a 2 inch VDO tacho to my son David's bug, it was reading inaccurately, I thought it was switched wrong but it needed a diode as well make it read correctly.

Steve

Joel has said before when i asked this same question, i think it has something to do with the coil info being sent.

Its just something you put in line with the signal wire and it stops the needle bouncing around and makes it move smoothly and accuratly.

They are preety easy as oil pressur eis the only one that really moves around that much while driving and my needle only gets that high in the wet.

Volts bounces around a fair bit on mine as i think my regulator is on the way out.

But the onl bad bit is the shift light. It isnt as bright as id like, but i guess it shouldnt be on for as long as mine has been when we go out on a mates paddock.


All in all its a good tacho and i will be installing one in my brothers charade in the next week.

Id take a video of it but its too late to be outside redlining the dub

it just cleans up the signal

Unless you pay big $$s for quality tachs like Autometer etc most of these tachs just come from taiwan and there made to run on your average boy racers rice bucket with a ECU generated tach signal

Theyre usually not sensative enough to work off the fluffy signal that points make

THe diodes only work one way, if you get no signal flip it around

and also i put mine at the coil end which was probably a mistake cos it failed fairly early and i think it was heat.
stick it up front at the tacho end

put bricks in front of u front wheels, [in thegarage] pour a bucket of water under the rear tires and get inside n smoke it up and video the gauge

does the tac work as good as an expensive one , if u put in a diode

Oh well yeah it bounces around, ill get a video of it this arvo, hopefully its wet so i can get it moving but if not ill just redline it in neutrall

It might need the diode as when the electromagnetic field in the coil collapses it generates a back EMF. The diode will block this.
(I think, I'm a bit rusty on electronics these days)