[ejcycles]

Hi All
Ok lets clear this up, I just saw this post. The American Lifan 200GY-5 has an electronic tachometer, the 200GY-2 has a mechanical or cable operated tachometer. If you have a GY-5 the right engine cover Does Not have a tachometer cable port. If you have a GY-2 the right engine cover Does Have a tachometer cable port. The tachometer cable port is in the right engine case on the front of the cover.

I can't say what other manufactures are doing with the tachometers. They may be set up like this they may not be. There are only two ways to run a tachometer on any vehicle or engine, electronically or mechanically. There are aftermarket tachometers that you can attach a probe around the spark plug wire to run the tachometer, or you can purchase one that will run from a cable for that particular engine. There is no such thing as a vacuum operated tachometer. A tachometer can not tell engine revolution from vacuum. There are two things you can do checking vacuum...check how the valves are operating or synchronize multi-cylinder engine carburetors.

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Bruce