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Your cart is empty.Keep up with a successful preventative maintenance program for your motorcycle, ATV, power watercraft, or boat with this Hour/Tach Meter from Hardline Products. The hour meter shows total hours accumulated, and the hour/tach meter shows RPM's when the engine is running. When the engine is off, the meter shows total hours accumulated. It works on any gas engine up to two cylinders and 16,000 RPM, and it can be used with fuel injection engines. Installation is easy with simple patented one wire hook-up. Use this Hour/Tach Meter to keep track of your total time on machine. Plan oil changes, valve services, clutch service, chassis lubrication, and other maintenance schedules. It's ideal for use with lawn and garden equipment, pressure washers, generators, small engine, marine outboards, dirt bikes, PWCs, ATVs/UTVs or any 2/4 stroke engines up to two cylinders. No power is required -- the meter has a 10-year battery sealed inside. The unit measures 2-1/8 x 1-1/2 x 5/8 inches and it comes with a log book. Hardline Products is an industry leader in after-market power sports accessories, offering matched registration letter and number kits, decal application and removal fluid, and more for on- and off-road motorcycles, boating, personal watercraft, all terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobiles, and karting. Made in the USA.
B-rian
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2024
Quality Product. Works great. Easy to install.
Jason Bender
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2024
I’ve had this on my bike for about five years now and it still works great. Super weatherproof, maybe not super accurate (since it uses an induction wire) but accurate enough for tuning a carb on a small capacity engine, and probably the best option for mopeds and small bikes that don’t have a tach included. Can’t recommend this tach enough!
R. Jackson
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2024
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Shedguy
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2022
Great product! I installed this on my Suzuki DF 2.5 single cylinder, 4 cycle outboard motor so I could monitor the rpms and hours for the engine break-in protocol and later to track hours for routine maintenance intervals. I had done a lot of research and found that there are some other products out there that are difficult to install and/or inaccurate, but this Hardline product was a very simple and secure installation and is accurate. There was no adjustment required at all- I installed it and it worked. Now I can run my engine by rpm rather than guessing by half-throttle, quarter-throttle etc. and don't have to guess how many hours are on the engine for maintenance. And, the price is right. Highly recommend. In addition, Hardline advised when I asked that you can use regular 18 gauge wire of 10, 15 ft if you need to place the device further away from the engine you are monitoring. I plan to do this with my small outboard so I can monitor it more comfortably as I go through the engine break in procedure with progressive rpms on my new 2.5 hp outboard.
Hally
Reviewed in Australia on June 13, 2022
Have had two of these for several years now and the important thing is that they are reliable, Don't buy the cheap chinese copies as they are flat out lasting a few months.
hutt
Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2022
Bought this for monitoring engine hours and RPM of my new outboard. East to install and work perfectly.
A. B. Carriker
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2022
I needed a tachometer to set the idle rpms on my motorcycle, a 2005 Yamaha Road Star Silverado, which doesn't have one. I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on the high dollar tachs since I mainly wanted it as a tuning tool. So I priced a bunch of different inexpensive ones, read all the reviews and the Hardline seemed to consistently get the best reviews, so I got it.It's super easy to install and so far seems to be pretty accurate. After setting the idle rpms I took the bike for a ride, making mental notes of my rpms at different speeds while running in 5th gear. Then posted my numbers on a Road Star forum and people said my numbers were spot on.Since I purchased this as a tuning tool, I hadn't planned on leaving it on the bike. But when it was all said and done I decided it was pretty nice having a tach. So I made a little bracket and mounted it to the left handlebar. Pic was taken with the bike off, so the rpms aren't displayed. And I'm not concerned with the Hour meter, so I've never bothered to set it.As far as waterproofness goes, I haven't really put it to the test yet other than to wash the bike, which didn't seem to hurt it. But the entire unit seems to be sealed pretty good, so I don't anticipate any issues.The only real issue is that it's disposable. Since it is sealed, once the battery dies, that's it.Overall though I'm very glad I purchased it. And it's definitely served it's purpose. It may not be the classiest looking tach, but it works!
Glenn
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022
I used the unit for a tach when rebuilding my Poulan Pro Chainsaw.While being easy to install and use on the chainsaw's 2 cycle engine, I could not get the RPM display to stop jumping around. I tried a different number of turns on the pickup wire, with no difference in the reading.The display is very small, so readings that jump around constantly make it difficult to determine an accurate RPM. I watched it for a while until I could get a feel of what the actual RPM was and then went to the next step.That said, I could get enough of a reading (+ or minus several hundred RPMs) to adjust the idle and high screw settings and final idle setting.I'm not sure how long the non-user serviceable battery will last but that will be reported on a later update.
Francois Boucher
Reviewed in Canada on July 25, 2021
Wow! Super easy to install. Works perfectly.The wire and maintenance manual were not included in the package. So i got in communication with the company. The Hardline president himself emailed me back!Any 18 or 20 gauge wire, stranded or single cable, may be used, up to 14 feet long.I used 18 gauge single wire and it fits very well. No issues at all.Great tool! Thanks.
JimK280
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2021
Nicely packaged and works great. Seems to be well built for the size. The only down point was that there should have been some double sided tape in the packaging but it was missing. No real issue as I had some at home. As a product and quality, for me it's a five star.
henikeljb
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2019
Only real problem with the unit is the wire provided is a bit short for what I wanted.
CycleRob
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2018
I now own 4 of these high quality, really handsome, one-wire Tach/Hour meters, that were easily installed by either a drill-and-screw-on -or- peel-and-stick-on placement. Sadly, I wasted $$ on other Tach/Hourmeter brands sold here in this price range (and much cheaper) that all have wildly inaccurate Tach readings, less features and, I now know are not as classy looking as the HR-8061-2. After not being able to get stable or accurate Tach readings on those "other" poor performing units, even after trying other selectable firing intervals, 2, 3, 4, or 5 turns of the sense wire neatly coiled around the sparkplug wire, in BOTH directions from the sparkplug(!) I finally tried this more expensive HR-8061-2 meter. This Hardline Products device shows (engine stopped) with press-and-hold in Tach mode the Max RPM -or- with a press-and-hold in Hours mode the "Number of engine starts", with the MaxRPM being able to be selectively reset each run time by just continuing to hold down the meter's single button.Installed when new on my 4 year old log splitter before ever starting it showed 71 engine recoil starts, reminding me how many days of work and juice/water breaks I took. On my 4-stroke engined weed wacker, besides being priceless to keep track of the run times for engine oil changes, the maxRPM showed 9,860! One unit on each of my orange 2000W and yellow 3100W Inverter Generators ACCURATELY shows a stable, unchanging RPM reading when the engines are running steadily under a load. Being that you can access the hour reading (say, 48.1) with the engine running, re-fueling or oil change due data can be recorded or acted upon. As a 70-something retired career MotorCycle (Car/Truck/PowerEquipt) mechanic, take my word for it, this is the ONLY Tach/Hour Meter you should invest in.
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