After the new parts arrived and I finished up getting the clusters back together, I took a few weeks off due to weather and other various things.  Then we got a nice day in December, so I decided to put everything back together.  I’d also managed to trash the interior even further in the course of wiring up the new tach (which is independent of the factory non-tach harness, along with trying to tidy up some of the wiring behind the panel.  I still haven’t gotten the speedometer cable to stay put on the backside of the cluster, so I’ll need to pull the cluster one more time to fix that issue.  I also managed to mess my back up through this process by over-doing it, and now I’m living with some new issues of sciatica and lower back pain.  Yay.

The new RCCI tach works GREAT! Also looks WAY cooler than the factory clock… which there’s a factory clock in the center console, as well as on the stereo’s display – so I think we’re covered.