I went to visit Mad Max this weekend. He's pinned in 3 feet of snow and can't move too far. I fired him up this weekend and noticed there was no Tack? No matter what I did, I had no RPM's?

 

Is this a distributor going away or maybe a wire eaten by some rodent?

 

Suggestions on where to look when I go back to dig him out?

Thanks,

Glenn

82 SubaruHummer

84 GL Mad Max

01 Forester

I went to visit Mad Max this weekend. He's pinned in 3 feet of snow and can't move too far. I fired him up this weekend and noticed there was no Tack? No matter what I did, I had no RPM's?

 

Is this a distributor going away or maybe a wire eaten by some rodent?

 

Suggestions on where to look when I go back to dig him out?

Thanks,

Glenn

82 SubaruHummer

84 GL Mad Max

01 Forester

 

I vote for lose wire somewhere. My '84 GL used to not have a tach till it warmed up for a few minutes, then the tach would start working. But it never had trouble starting or running, so I figured it wasn't the distributor or coil.

Yeah - tach signal comes from the coil, so if it runs, then either the signal isn't there (wire) or the guage is frozen up. Usually a bad disty will jump around a lot, and give very high readings - mine was reading 7,000 RPM at idle when it needed bushings

 

GD