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Hey guys, My tachometer makes a noise when it does the sweep to start the car. The noise sounds like plastic gearing spinning. It only does it when you start

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Old 03-22-2013, 06:57 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My tachometer makes a noise when it does the sweep to start the car. The noise sounds like plastic gearing spinning. It only does it when you start the car when it goes from 0 to 7500RPM and back. It would also make that noise when I do it with the car in the on position but engine off. Once the car is running, no noise at all. Is that normal? My warranty is running out next weekend, I just want to get a few small issues taken care of.

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There are, indeed, plastic gears in the tach with very thin gear fluid. It is pretty simple in construction. There was a time when the tach shaft slipped out of one of the gears, and I was able to push it back in and reassemble. Alignment was done with the needle in place and pushing it counter-clockwise to slip it in the home position.

Of course, this is not possible with all cars like the Honda Prelude I worked on. Once the shaft slipped out, it was broke.
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The thing is that it only makes the noise doing the initial sweep to the top or putting the car in on position, not when car is working. I don't remember if the car had that noise when new
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Did you figure out the issue? Experiencing the exact same problem on a 2010 Z with <25k miles. Thanks and sorry I do realize this was 7 years ago.
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