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Technical => Electrical Tech => Topic started by: fordnutjm on December 01, 2005, 08:47:36 PM

Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: fordnutjm on December 01, 2005, 08:47:36 PM
Will a full digital panel (1986) off a v6 work on a v8?
Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: CougarSE on December 01, 2005, 10:14:19 PM
the tach will not work correctly,  hell i didn't know you could get a full digital dash with a v6
Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: fordnutjm on December 02, 2005, 12:42:28 PM
HUmmmmmm the guy said that is was from a V6 car.
Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: Thunder Chicken on December 02, 2005, 05:09:59 PM
I seem to remember that you can modify the digital tach to work with a 4, 6 or 8 cylinder. Something to do with the "tach strap" terminals in the cluster connector. I seem to remember that if you ground one you get one engine, ground both you get another, or ground none and get yet another, or something like that...
Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: fordnutjm on December 11, 2005, 03:55:18 PM
I found out that the panel is a partical digital, but off a V6. Will it sitll (except the tac) work?
Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: cougarman on December 11, 2005, 04:06:21 PM
If it's partial digital, it probably doesn't have a tach.
Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: Haystack on December 11, 2005, 04:51:00 PM
it wont have a tach if it is the base. see?
(http://www.coolcats.net/tech/general/images/baseclus.jpg)
If its digital,  I think it will have to be recalibrated.
Title: Found a insturment panel, but will it work?
Post by: thunderjet302 on December 13, 2005, 11:00:52 AM
I think that if you ordered the light group or something like that in the LX you got the full digital dash reguardless of engine. I know that I saw an 88 LX V6 in the yard with a full digital dash once. never though to pull it to see if the tach hook up was diferent than the one on my car (5.0).