1988 county dashboard questions

[Luk3jay]

Hi guys, my transit county has what appears to be a factory fitted tacho dash. I thought it was aftermarket until I noticed the ford stamp on the top left.
It all works as it should, but i would really like to have an rpm dial. It's our possible to swap the dashboard with a 'normal' one? Or did be of this era (pinto engine) not have an rpm indicator?
It looks like the speedo can just unbolt but i don't want to touch anything without getting a bit more info first. I like to know about everything, and I've never seen a dash like this before. It looks like a tacho card goes on behind the speedo but i don't have the key for it.

Thanks in advance!



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[MinorMatt]

Could you have made the pics any bigger?

Yes its a factory fitted tachograph, and yes you would be able to swap it to a normal speedo - but revcounters wern't available in the mk3 but people have fitted car ones (cortina?) That do have the revcounter

[Luk3jay]

Could you have made the pics any bigger?

Yes its a factory fitted tachograph, and yes you would be able to swap it to a normal speedo - but revcounters wern't available in the mk3 but people have fitted car ones (cortina?) That do have the revcounter

Thanks for your reply! I might just get one of the cheapy bolt on revcounters from ebay...
Do you know anything about these tachographs? Perhaps what type of key i need to get in it?

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[Frag]

Is it a veeder root tachograph ?
I thought that one key fitted every tacho,they were all the same....
Lucas kienzle were also common tachographs.
Search tachograph key
Image stolen from EBay

[jay]

A thin screw driver pushed in the slot will open the tacho..i remember doing that for years in my old cargo, also did it in rentals if they had no keys