Defender TD5 Tacho/rev counter upgrade YAE100790 Part 2

If you watched part 1 of this series, link here: • Defender TD5 Tacho/rev... you would have seen me use a cheap tacho on my Defender instead of the £300+ from Land Rover. In this video I fit the tacho into the instrument cluster and see if it works!
Links below:
Tacho Ebay: www.ebay.co.uk...
Tacho Amazon (Expensive!) amzn.to/3UA7AkU
Terminals Ebay: www.ebay.co.uk...
White paint pen Amazon: amzn.to/3UzS6h1
Resistor Amazon: amzn.to/3EsNinV
Mustool MDS8207 scope Banggood: uk.banggood.co...
Mustool MDS8207 scope on Amazon (Expensive!) amzn.to/3EpW4D4
Nanocom: www.nanocom-di...
Very expensive genuine tacho: www.terraintec...
Connector images, my Google drive: drive.google.c...
*Full disclosure. Some of the links above may earn a few pennies for the channel at absolutely no cost to yourself. Thanks for watching. *

[@NLGREGG]

I did this earlier this year and coincidentally i did the exact same thing buying an oil guage but ending up scraping and re painting the needle, i also put a green filter behind the face to match the white leds to the rest, although it still stands out a bit much for my liking so i may get rid of the leds and replace them with a bulb to match the other gauges, i also think a bit of satin black on the bezel will match a bit better. Ive also toyed with the idea of making a custom face to match the genuine one as i have access to a laser engraver but i will have to let you know how that goes when its done, brilliant video though!

[@MikeMakesIt]

Hi Nathan and thanks for the great comments. There are a few things I'm not happy about with the tacho which are the white illumination, red led for the needle and the shiny black bezel! Oh, and I think there are too many divisions on the display but apart from that I'm happy! I've another identical tacho I'll try and address some of these issue but would be interested in the outcome of your laser engraved dial when you do it. Thanks for watching, its much appreciated 👍🏽

[@frankb2428]

Brilliant video, I've been wanting to do the same with my Defender TD5 dials. very informative my friend!

[@MikeMakesIt]

Hi Frank, thanks for the great comments and of course for watching, much appreciated 👍🏽

[@elmarmag]

Hi I did something similar a few years ago. I ended up opening the tacho and managed to get a green plastic Ikea food container lid between the led and the screen. I put two layers and then I got the dim landrover green light

[@MikeMakesIt]

Hi Elmar. I'm still to get around to doing mine but I like the Ikea idea. Watch this space! Thanks for the comments and for watching.👍🏽

[@jonatday]

Great Video Thankyou

[@MikeMakesIt]

Hi Jonathan, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 👍🏽

[@ralphj4012]

Good work. Of course, now you need a grey paint pen to dull down the black bezel (you know I am joking).

[@MikeMakesIt]

LOL, but....... Its funny you mention that, I'm not too happy with the red LED that lights the pointer and the white backlight is still too bright and as you mention the shiny black bezel surround so I'm afraid there is going to be a part three!! Thanks for the great comment and for watching 👍🏽👍🏽

[@ralphj4012]

@@MikeMakesIt It looked like the PCB can be pulled away from the dial so you should have room for any LED mods, he says, confidently. Though, as you say, the bezel may split if opened again.

[@MikeMakesIt]

Luckily I have another new one so can experiment on that! It might end badly but my fingers are crossed 😊