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Old Feb 6, 2018 | 05:20 PM
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Hallo friends.
Ive bought to my SPORTY 1987 new SPEEDOMETER with tacho.

Same like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Speedometer...9ZSe9b&vxp=mtr

Speedo is working good but TACHO on IDLE is not stabile.
Is it normal? How I can fix it?
 
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Old Feb 7, 2018 | 09:51 AM
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link is bad. yep expect to see movement at idle, mine does it. if you instruments are isolated, check the condition of the bushings, they get hard with age.
 
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Old Feb 8, 2018 | 08:25 AM
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If it is from vibration you either live with it or replace any riser bushings. If it is a physical miss, you would know it. If in doubt, take tack off mount and run engine.
 
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