Has any body on here seen one of these before. Its a NOS Stewart Warner Tacho drive kit to suit mounting to a flat head ford generator. It is missing a few parts,mainly the top mounting clamp-which I can probably make- and some sort of connector to link the angle drive to the gennie pulley.Any one have one similar or parts?
That’s just cool as beans !! I just did a quick goggle search n a bunch of stuff came up for it Friggin cool home slice !
There is a thread on here from 2015, Stewart Warner tach column mount. Shows a tach mount using a flathead water pump. Never saw one of these although I have one of there tach drives that mounts under a dist. It also is NOS.
@paintslinger805 runs one that drives of the crank on his. Doesn’t help you but I always thought that it was cool.
The SW angle tach drive is pretty common, lots of v-drive boats had them. Those adaptations are rare and very cool though. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Yes, I think I have one. I’ve been doing some research this weekend and came across this thread. At an Estate Sale on Saturday I picked up a Stewart Warner Truck Tachometer Kit. New Old Stock. It includes the tach (just under 3” w/ beige face), tach cable, and the complete generator mounting kit (plus nuts and bolts). For the life of me, I couldn’t determine the date but really I couldn’t believe it... the condition of the tach is utterly amazing. But once I came across this thread, I realized the date on the instructions were correct, 6/45. Oh, check this out, I have another kit. ; ) this other one is for a crank mount. But the gauge is 5-1/4”! and yes, these will be for sale. Pictures to follow...
Here are pictures of the tach. And of the generator hardware and nuts/bolts. Box and documents are available as well. I also have pics of the crank setup that includes the 5-1/4” tach. Is this really from the 40’s? I couldn’t find anything similar on the net... Regards, Matt
Yeah Matt, you sure it the jackpot there. Who would think? It's mesmerizing to me to see that label, since I'm so into gauges. It's funny with the estate sale finds, you rarely find a treasure that you are very into, but you do find treasures that others are into. I'm sure there's someone out there frothing at the mouth over your finds. I hope they find the right person for the right car. The tach date code is July of 1946, by the way.
Very cool, but it must be for a low performance application. 3500 RPM maximum ain't much. A boat or fire truck (both mentioned above) seem too be appropriate.
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