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Old 12-04-04, 04:19 PM
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why does my tach show rpm when the car is off?

everyonce and a while when i turn my car off the tach doesnt go all the way down, but most of the time it does. what up with it?
oh and i included a nice pic of my rubber left down my road, can you tell i dont have a lsd? hehe
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Old 12-04-04, 07:52 PM
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I'd guess the needle is probably sticking on something. The internal parts of it, I mean.
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Did you maybe mess up on the install and hit the needle by chance?
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Its getting hung up on the white face gauges. Same thing happened to a friend of mine when he installed white face gauges on his Ranger. The slight extra thickness causes the needle to get hung up a bit.
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um it did that vefore the white faces... but it doesnt always do it either.
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nice rubber, maybe someday an fc will be soo powerfull itll burn two streaks of fire down the road!!
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I remember the 1st time I peeled out I was like where the other line??
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Messing with the gauge cluster will almost always screw up the needles.
You need to fix it yourself or replace the broken gauge.


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