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an electrician i am not, but i do reasonably well.

however, i need to find out where the heck im supposed to connect the white wire off my new tach? i know its supposed to be connected to the ignition wire, but i havent found it. i used to the old gm fuse blocks that have IGN clearly marked....

PS a picture would be a BIG help

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Out on the fender at the coil, you have a thing bolted to the the coil. It has a wire from the fuse box, and a wire to the coil. I think you want the wire from the fusebox.

hmm sounds like thats it. i have the tach running from one of the instrument lights.

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What tach do you have. Usually they are red = keyed hot, should not be taken from coil, Green = coil negative, Black is ground and Blue or White is from instrument light, turns on light with all other lights for night time, or can be connected to ignition.

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its an old smiths tach that i pulled from a 60's MG midget. i emailed a few MG enthusiasts about it and found out what goes where. its also designed in a way that the connectors in the rear of it are different types of plugs. that makes it almost foolproof to install, but since i pulled it from a car that was already torn up, i couldnt tell what was what.

found out that i had 4 wires: red for the light bulb, black for ground, green for signal, and white for ignition. i just couldnt tell where the ignition wire was. i ended up wiring it to the same red wire as the lightbulb wire. planning on changing it this afternoon

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