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Old Aug 27, 2004 | 09:39 AM
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I am putting an electric Tach in my 1974 vette,which has an HEI distributor.My Question is.....On the back of the Tach there are 3 wire connector(2 side by side,1 below them)where do these 3 connectors go?One must go to the distributor(which one?)thanx

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Old Aug 27, 2004 | 11:56 AM
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brown is trigger, tach
red is power
last one is ground

what color are the wires on your plug?

do you have a factory plug end?

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Old Aug 27, 2004 | 12:57 PM
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the 74 had a mechanical Tach with a drive cable.I am changing it over to an electric Tach because I had to change my distributor to HEI.Therefore I need to run all the wires since there is no wiring for it.now that I know what the wires come from what terminals do they go to on the back of the Tach.The terminals arew layed out like this.

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there are no numbers or markings to identify them.Hope you can help
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