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97 12v twitchy rpm guage?

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Old 05-05-2007, 03:58 AM
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97 12v twitchy rpm guage?

well its my dads truck..we just put a 4 inch straight pipe on it tonight and we pushed his number 11 fuel plate full forward and was taking it out for a test drive to see how much his egts drop and his rpm tach starts jumping around and then goes to 0 then he gets in to the throttle again and it will catch back up and keeps doing this i believe it would be a short somewhere but where do i start to look for that kind of problem? where is it that the rpm guage gets its reading from the motor?..this has happend about 2 times within the last month or 2 but it would go away after about 5 mintues now its seems to be pretty consistant
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The sensor is mounted just above the crankshaft damper. More than likely the ground has some corrosion and just needs to be cleaned. The clearance is .050 with a non-magnetic feeler gauge.
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alright thanks ill go check that out...hopefully thats all it is because its starting to get really annoying now.
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well washed all the grease off the front of the motor and on the balanceer and it seeems to be working good again thanks for the help
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