Recs to buy a new Yammie Tach?

[Gary M]

Looks like my port tach is fading into history....... 2001 250 OX-66

And Recs on a place to order a new one at a good price?

Thanks in advance.....

 

[Enough Already]

Gary - I had one of mine go in '08 and pretty sure I purchased new through boats.net. I paid $342 (no tax) and they are listing for around $350 now. I have the receipt but it doesn't show the vendor. Have always had good luck with boats.net, original packaging, OEM, etc. Probably paid a little extra for security and peace of mind but beats the $450+ the local parts shop will ask. Pretty easy replace. One point of interest, the new gauge I received has a digital hour meter, so you will be out of sync with your existing hour meter if you have one. Not sure how to get that updated to match.

 

[Salinity Now]

Shipyard Isle Marine (SIM on THT) great prices, awesome webpage, very easy to deal with.

 

[Salinity Now]

http://www.simyamaha.com/Yamaha_Tach_Ri ... -e1-00.htm

Is this right? (granted its a kit, should be able to get the gauge alone cheaper I would think?)

I just bought two trim senders from him, $80 cheaper (each) than anyone else!!

 

[Parthery]

There are a couple on eBay right now, as well.

 

[JeffN]

There are a couple on eBay right now, as well.

+1

 

[Enough Already]

Wow, either I way overpaid or the SIM product is the conversion kit, not including the actual gauge. Two thumbs up for Andy at SIM as well. Never had any issues and always very helpful. Might be worth a call to make sure what you are getting. For a straight gauge swap (as in my case) there was no "kit" required.

 

[Gary M]

I just ordered a new tach from simyamaha. The guy there told me that it's cheaper to just buy the whole tach rigging kit kit than to buy the tach only. The cheapest I could find on just the tach was $353 and I ordered the whole kit for $269! It can be used for 2 or 4-strokes with just the flip of a sitch on the back of the tach. He assured me that it will be identical to my original one.

Thanks for all your help guys! :dance

 

[Gary M]

As a follow-up, I took the new tach out to the boat, flopped the cabin access panel down and started eyeballing the wiring of the new tach to the wires coming out of the original tach and it was "different"! I called the guy back to notify that he'd sent me the wrong tach and he assured me that it was correct. When I went back to the boat and started messing with the mounting bracket of the original one I then realized that the Fuel Management System Gauge was flopping in its hole! I was working on the wrong gauge! :bang From behind and looking in through the access door, I was "too low"!

Once I stopped laughing at myself, the swap out went pretty quickly and 30 minutes later, the new one was taching away! The one tiny difference is that the new one has a small hour meter on it.

Thanks again for the head's up for simyamaha.com. "Andy" over there knows his Yamaha parts!

 

[Enough Already]

I had same "issue" with the small digital hour meter. Any ideas how to update to match the in-dash hour meter?

 

[NOTHING ELSE MATTERS]

I had same "issue" with the small digital hour meter. Any ideas how to update to match the in-dash hour meter?

Apply 12 volts to the gauge for days to make up the hours.

 

[gw204]

Apply 12 volts to the gauge for days to make up the hours.

That doesn't work anymore. I tried it when I repowered my old 252 with used OX66s and put all new rigging in. You just have to live with it.

 

[NOTHING ELSE MATTERS]

Apply 12 volts to the gauge for days to make up the hours.

That doesn't work anymore. I tried it when I repowered my old 252 with used OX66s and put all new rigging in. You just have to live with it.

It worked for me on a Teleflex gauge for my V20.