Stock Tach Not Working...

KDK1988GT

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Last winter I picked up a brand new painless wiring harness for my car, It has a wire for a tach hook up and when I've hooked this wire up to three locations that I figured would be the correct spot to hook it to. When I do this the car will not start it just cranks over and over..

- I've tapped this wire to my MSD tach out and no luck car will just crank over but nothing else.
- to my coil + side same results
- to my coil - side same results

I have my monster tach hooked to my MSD box and it works fine, but I would like to get the stock tach working again so when I data log I can log my RPM.

Any thoughts on this? Thanks!
 
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The stock tach connects to the IDM circuit on the computer, computer wiring connector pin #4, dark green/yellow wire. There is a 22K resistor in the circuit and the tach connects to the computer side of the wiring and not the TFI module side.

Diagram courtesy of Tmoss & Stang&2birds
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