I am looking for the tach wire on this truck installing a remote start. Directechs does not list for a diesel and it has changed from 2006. Any help would be appreciated.
Great news: You don't need one!!!!! It has OEM anti-grind!
Don't connect a tach wire. Program remote start for 4 second crank (or whatever maximum your system has) and let the vehicle's PCM take care of business.
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Going tachless has never worked before, but none of the diesels had anti-grind either. I will give it a shot and see if it works. Thanks for the info.
Under the dash at what is called "the customer access point" there is a harness (a big one) with wire's taped up to it. Just like the older Fords. It's a blue wire. It's just there and is connected to nothing.
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That is the location where I got all of the older ones, wasent sure if they changed it or not. I have to install one next week so just wanted to be sure. Thanks
Thank you brother. And....remeber the color change on that tach wire.
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From experience: The CTO wire (was GREEN / WHITE now blue) never worked well with DEI tach inputs but it was Ok with Autostart and some others. Test and see.
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I am really supprised at the comments posted here on this thread.
brudnic writes: "going tachless has never worked before, but none of the diesels had anti-grind either"
I have always read, and thought, that they all had anti grind? And that tachless was the ONLY way to go with a DEI product.
Big Dog writes: From experiance the CTO (CTO?) wire never worked well with DEI products"
So what will work best, it what ever works best....sounds like? No definitive answer. I have never done a Ford diesel, where I HAVEN'T used a tach.....but then
again, I use Astrostart.... Adjustable wait to start timer, positive, or negative input.
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CTO is clean tach output. That's the GREEN / WHITE near e-brake whith end cut off and taped with other cut wires which are generally used by upfitters who install sno shovels, dump beds, hoists and such that require a tach and PTO.
Well, it's supposed to be a clean tach out . . . anything but! Even Powercode, the OEM r-start, used a signal inverter on that wire and even that was iffy. Compu went to alternator. Astro is in a league of it's own.
All Ford diesels since 02 have granny crank so I take advantage of it. Voltage sense doesn't work too well since this truck is like a christmas tree. The instant the lights come on, the remote start shuts down.
The new DEI pieces will integrate Astro's tach sense. (I knew some good will come from that merge!)
Ford diesel tachs were discussed to death in this forum. Just punch in Ford diesel in the search box and the info is overwhelming.
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