broken tachometer

[kkrup62 at hotmail.com (Karl Krupke)]

Hi Andrew,
    um... Bentley manual for your model and year, electrical schematic; 
trace, isolate, troubleshoot.
    I'm being brief and trying to NOT sound rude (probably failing, sorry).
    If the engine is running and the tach is not announcing that fact to 
you; just follow the wiring by the book, test as you go from signal 
generator (distributor) to monitor (tach).
    Quick cheat; see if you can fake the tach into reading something. If so, 
it's working, just not getting signal. In that case look for a bad 
connection, either loose wiring or cracked flex circuit (wrapped behind the 
gauge cluster on older VW's).

Karl

>From: "Andrew McCausland" <ajmccaus@gmail.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: broken tachometer
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:57:35 -0600
>
>Hello all, since I bought my new 16v the tach has not been working at all.
>Any ideas on what to look at to fix it?
>
>Much appreciated!
>
>--
>Andrew McCausland
>87 Scirocco 16v Black
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