I found this SW Mech tach at an estate sale fri. where do I hook this thing up to my car if possible ? what year is this thing from ? I have never saw before , would like to use it on my 58 Coronet if possible !!
to hook it up you would need a distributor with a tach drive. chevy corvettes in the 50s and early 60s had them but i'm not sure if one was offered for your motor also....i believe some cars drove a mechanical tach from the generator
That's pretty cool but, as 36 mentioned, you may not be able to use it on your car without locating a tach-drive distributor. It'll still make a great wall-hanger!
It is a speedometer that is whay it says MPH on the face as wll as an odometer, and you hook it to the speedometer drive on your transmission.
Crap! You're right! And I saw the odometer too! That's what happens when the freakin' caffine in your coffee didn't hit your freakin' brain yet!
It has to be for a tractor or something that doesn't go very far the Odometer is only 3 digits long and one of those would be 10ths
I have one almost identical that came off a stationary excercise bike. I keep it as a joke and tell guys I will put it in their car so they can only go 6 mph.
I put a plastic SW speedo off an exercise bike on my old Schwinn bicycle. It goes up to 50 mph, and has a 4 digit odometer
With stationary bikes, its not a matter of whats on it, but rather a reference. I have saved a few over the years (cause S/W makes them) and some have low numbers, some have high numbers, some even have the same gauge read rpm AND mph on the same needle, kind of like its readiing kph/mph on a regular speedo. Maybe for a treadmill?
all you naysayers. id say just hook it up to a tach drive it should calibrate itself and work out fine.
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