Thanks for posting this! I too have been "thinking" about that tach; it looks as close to an old Sun as you can get. I've always had the Sun Super Tachs, but they are only available used now, some use the transmitter, and apparently the transmitter batteries are no longer even made. But, since the Mooneye's Tach is plastic, it's been crossed off my list. However, I recently bought a NOS, Pro Series Racing Tach, on that auction site we all know and love. Complete in the original box, paperwork dated 1991, and even has a warranty card (Maybe I should send it in?). It was made by EQUUS, a company still in business in California, and looks identical to the old Sun Super Tachs, 270 degree sweep, 0-8 grand, with a red, white , and blue face, and a red, shift point, pointer. I was made in Taiwan also, but is all metal, has nice chrome, and is "brand new". Maybe we could all write EQUUS, and request they make them again (just do an internet search for them), Sun is cheap plastic now also, and has been for many years (they probably would't re-make the good tachs), and the only decent gauges out there now are made by Auto Meter. There is a company out there that rebuilds old Sun Tachs, and converts them to self contained, and fully electronic, in the process, but I forget their name. Maybe someone here can provide that information. It's good this thread has exposed the cheap junk the Mooneye's Tach really is; at least the currently available ones. Butch/56sedandelivery.
I've got one in my Olds. It's ok, not the most accurate, but it's all I could find at the time that had an old look to it. There is a guy in Silverdale WA. by the name of Jerry Valentine, some of the pacific northwest guys would know him. Any way he is rebuilding old tachs with modern guts, some really neat stuff. I have his card somewhere.
I've got a complete set of pre-Chinese Moon gauges for my 56 Ford pickup. Made in the good ol USA! I put the tach in one of the early deep Sun cups that look like a chromed 5 gallon bucket.
Well before you condemn the Mooneyes tachs, remember the information here is 5 YEARS OLD! I am pretty sure that Mooneyes now has the gauges made by Classic Instruments right here in the Good Ole USA
Just get an old Sun Tach from the 50's -60's, (I bought one in really nice shape ,the "Football"at the Bakerfield March meet for 10 bucks) and have it converted (so that a sending unit isnt required) I met an old guy at the March meet in Bakersfield that takes all the innards and converts them to modern electronics for for like a buck and half or so. I will dig up his phone # (unless someone knows who this guy is) I think he is from Portland or Seattle??
Have had a Moon Eyes tach on my 62 wagon for three years and it does everything a tach is supposed to do but it does look cheap.. The next one I buy will be a Sun Super Tach ll, model CP7901.
Yeah, this is an old thread. I talked to a Moon distributor last year. I had a new tach that never worked out of the box. Even though it was several years old he swapped it for me. He said Moon had a batch of bad ones back a few years ago but now the new ones are better. The new one he gave me works fine.
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