I am trying to add on an aftermarket sun tach that is made for standard ignition or distributorless ignition, of which I have distributor less ignition and can not find where to get the tach signal from, I have been told from 1 coil of the ignition, off of the crankshaft position sensor, but that seems to be a constant 12 VDC. i would appreciate any help on this. Thanks

 

Have you tried searching? This has been discussed many times before.

You want to tap into pin #48 for tach signal

 

I don't want to sound too stupid but pin 48 Where? I did do a search and possibly I didn't look back far enough, but all the subjects that came up were changing the gage cluster to one with a tach.

Thank you sooo much for your help

 

The #48 pin I think is located under the hood behind that black plastic cover on the firewall near the battery.

 

Found the following after doing a search for #48 pin.

https://www.f150online.com/forums/ot...rket-tach.html
https://www.f150online.com/forums/v6...3893-tach.html
https://www.f150online.com/forums/el...v6-manual.html
http://www.fordf150.net/articles/idx...Ford-F150.html

The last one is a how to that should help you out.

 

I apologize for taking sooo long to get back, i finally went to check out pin 48 and can not find it anywhere behind the battery, even the connector that goes thru the firewall on lft hand side of engine, behind battery there isn't even a pin in 48, this truck is very simple, manual windows/ac/locks. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks

 

97XL Thank you so much I read that article yo found and that is what I need to do, I even have the pin in stock, Thank you very much, I am still going to try and search that article again, to see how to look up different items, this will also help me on my 57 T bird.

 

Np..I did mine the lazy way, just swapped in an OEM cluster with a tach. I need to keep things simple, wiring is sooooo not my thing. LOL

 

x1,000,000

plus it looks better too.