Thread: Defender 300tdi Tacho - help!

Ill be interested in this as well id luv a tacho in the beast

i gather it runs of the alternator this could be a problem as the original alt has gone bye byes

it now has a 100 amp alt that also suits a ford transit van

Contact these guy's Contact Aisat ph 08 93505545 they are the Siemmens VDO agents in WA. They should be able to point you in the right direction.

Grizzly,

Go the VDO, feeds from the alt, you can get one 0-6000rpm not 10000 or more like the boy racers want

Takes about 2 hrs to do most time is taken up pulling apart and reassembling the instrument binicale reuse the illumination wires etc.

I put one in each Defender, turf the clock, BTW anyone want one I still got the last one sitting on the shelf.

You talking clock or VDO seqofish? :-)

G'day Grizzly_Adams
The listing that I have for VDO 52 mm Diesel Tacho is P/n 333-331 0-6000 rpm, Freq Range 933-1660 Hz. Dia 52 mm

(Please provide the following, Make and model of vehicle,Voltage,Alternator,Number of pole pairs, Alternator pulley Dia, Crankshaft Pulley Dia,) Alternator Tachometers must be calibrated accurately to read engine revs before being sold ) Verbatum from VDO Catalogue 6A

Bung-Tiddley

Thanks Uncle Ho, that sounds exactly like what the guy from the last Repco said. Unfortunately I couldn't tell him any of the answers to those questions :-O

Also unfortunately that one had the $334 price tag :-(

Gents,

Installed vdo tach (2", cockpit style) along with vdo temp and fuel guages after melt downs in No.3 son's 96 Defender. The tacho was about $A125 ish.

Simple installation - mind you has Disco alternator, so just pick up the W output- calibration by strobe light borrowed from school.

Took about 2 hours all up.

Temp and fuel guages about $A60 ish.

Temp guage easy - (required the correct sender, though - about $10), but fuel guage harder, and requires the inversion of the tank pickup because the guage reads the opposite way to OE.

All up, about 4 hours, a bit of silver solder on the tank pickup for the cut and shut.

Voila! Better guages and better bling!

HTH, Pierre.

try Speco guages - these are a Taiwanese copy of VDO, and much cheaper www.speco.com.au

HTH

LRH