90 honda accord erratic tach

90 honda accord

driving to work this morning and for 3 or 4 seconds the tach jumped
up and down erratically. Never happened before. Only happened once.
Engine ran fine while tach was jumping. No other sysmptoms. Speedometer
seemed fine.

G

Gene Wagenbreth <genewxxx@isi-OS4> wrote in news:fjmilr$o0v@venera.isi.edu:

> 90 honda accord
>
> driving to work this morning and for 3 or 4 seconds the tach jumped
> up and down erratically. Never happened before. Only happened once.
> Engine ran fine while tach was jumping. No other sysmptoms. Speedometer
> seemed fine.
>
>
>


Either:
2) Your igniter is failing. Replace it before you get stranded. Or,
2) the tach signal wire (blue wire) connector in the distributor is
corroded and making intermittent contact.

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