Hello Everyone new to Site but old Sentra

[jbaguam]

Hello Fellow Nissan Owners:

I am new to this site and I am glad to be part of a well knowledgeable group of users. I have tried other sites but my biggest issue was I could never get any clear answers or maybe I was asking the wrong. Anyway I own the 2001 Nissan Sentra 1.8 liter QG18de. Great car I bought it brand new in 2001 left it for my family to take care when I joined the service returned in 2009 to find the car transformed into a ranch car. Here were the problems, blown struts, busted radiator, dead dash lights, worn spark plugs, and 180,000 miles on the odometer. Since then I have replaced every part mentioned and now the car runs like a champ.

The one thing that puzzles me is trying to install a tachometer, I have the sunpro super tach 2. I spoke with a sunpro technician which he stated that I did not need a tach adaptor for my year model (2001 Sentra, XE) and just to splice the tach wire to the signal wire (blue/orange stripe wire) and I'll have a working tach, but that did not work. I also tried splicing to the ECu or ECM but that did not work either. Has anyone had any luck with installing a tach in this model? I have heard from other sentra owners that you would need a tach adaptor but I have also heard that you don't need a tach adaptor.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help I hope I can finally get this thing to work.

[ADDirishboy]

First off, welcome to NICO!

As for the tach, I've never had to install one before. But I'm sure someone around here has. Hopefully someone will pop in here and give some insight.