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Sunday, July 20, 2025

After fabricating my own tach mount for use with my CPP tilt steering column in my 55 Chevy 2-door wagon, I decided to avoid reinventing the wheel this time around.

Unhappy with the inexpensive Chinese tach I have been running, I wanted to go back to an “Old School” column-mounted type Sun tachometer. While Sun no longer makes these classic tachs, a company called Equess does, and they’re basically a modern clone of the original Sun tachometers.

The problem is that for those of us who have a Tri-Five with an aftermarket tilt column, there’s just not much room to column mount that tach. In the old days, the original column had lots of room to place that tach; no so with the tilt mechanisms on aftermarket tachs these days.

Instead of starting from scratch on a new mount, I simply took an existing column mount, flattened the curves out of it, cut the mounting “foot” off the mount,, reversed it, and added about 3/4 of an inch in height to the concave part of the mount.

The extra height is necessary to keep the bezel of the tach from hitting the wide fairing that conceals the title mechanism. On my CPP steering column, I have just over an inch of room to mount a column mounted tach. So my original tach mount went from this:

To this:

Here’s the video showing the alterations I made to the tach mount. Before I make it permanent, I’ll clean up the welds and paint the modified bracket.

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