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Old 01-03-2008, 04:49 PM
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need to know which wire is the tach wire on the stock coil set-up or how to locate it with stock ign removed on a 85 stang 5.0
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I know use a diagram but i fiured this would be just as fast lol
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when i installed my shift light, i had to splice it to the tach line on the coil. If i remember right, it is the green and black wire.
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my books say tan/yellow or grn/yellow at the coil. Test it with your meter set to ac voltage and you should have at least a couple of volts on there with the engine lightly revving. Make sure you test this my books have been wrong before....
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The tach gets wired to the neg. on the coil, which is the green/black wire like stated above.
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