You're arrogant on just about every forum you're on, aren't you? You did not describe what I need to do "to the letter."
"Box" aka transmission? What "box" are you referring to?
Meaning after the speedo. (cluster)?
Meaning after the speedo. (cluster)?
This makes sense.
The signal goes from the box to the speedo, the speedo buffers it, and then it goes from the speedo to other modules, such as the climate control, radio, cruise control and so on.
So what you want is splice the speedo output,
not the wire that comes from the gearbox.
And Marc has a point with the zener - you need to shunt the excess voltage so you do not damage the ADC on the processor.

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