Swapping gauge cluster

[TominMO]

I can unhook them without unhooking the cable from the tranny, done it 3 times that way now.

Great! Good to know. I'll have to try it.

[Festiva_Fred]

Great! Good to know. I'll have to try it.

Yep, I just go by feel, I've also done it by unhooking the cable from the trans, and that does make things alot easier.

[doylerl]

So basically the only thing that it COULD be is a loose plug or a bad gauge? My car is a 1989 base model L and it has NO harnesses for anything extra (mirrors, rear defrost, rear wiper, etc...) I am wondering if that has something to do with it. Everything else on the gauge works, even the headlight "buzzer" which I never had before. Thanks for the answers, and any other ideas are appreciated.

[festivaWES]

^^ Yeah you have to have lanky skinny arms. I can do it as well

And most likely yes something is not plugged in all the way, or you have a break in the curcuit board or a loose/damaged tach signal wire. Lime green in color with a dark green stripe left side plug of the cluster.

[doylerl]

Would that be possible to test by probing it with an aftermarket tach and no cluster hooked up at all?

[doylerl]

Thanks for the tip on the speedo cable. I pulled it out no problem without unbolting it from the trans. again. FYI, upon further investigation, I discovered that my plug does not even have a wire and pin in the tach position. I will have to run a new one to the plug. I will let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the responses BTW.

[doylerl]

Got it in and working. Not difficult at all. One wire, and some good old fashioned "hill billy" engineering, and it works like a dream. If you want to see some pictures, I have them on photobucket.

http://s780.photobucket.com/albums/yy82/doylerl/custom%20work/

Thanks again everyone for the responses...

[hofficergrover]

Got it in and working. Not difficult at all. One wire, and some good old fashioned "hill billy" engineering, and it works like a dream. If you want to see some pictures, I have them on photobucket.QUOTE]

haha "hill billy" engineering got to love it

[festivaWES]

So what your trying to tell us is that you used buttend connectors, some old speaker wire, and some zip ties to get your tach cluster up to "par"!!

STELLAR!!

[doylerl]

Well, since the wire wasn't there like everyone told me it was, yes, that's what I had to do. If you had a better option, you should have added your 2 cents in before, when I asked!

[hofficergrover]

haha he was being cool bout it not mean seems like your thing he was being mean

[doylerl]

It seems to me like he was being "smart". If you were not trying to sound like a jerk, sorry, but I have seen some posts on here where people are just slamming other people, and I don't appreciate it.

[doylerl]

BTW Tony, I got that lingo from you... I told you I would have to use it... haha

[hofficergrover]

haha yep i figured thats were you got it haha thats what you had to do haha if it works then do it thats how i do stuff if it aint super big haha

[festivaWES]

I was being "smart" funny,HAHA. Not the other "smart". I too myself have "hillybilly'd" some stuff, alot of stuff.

haha yep i figured thats were you got it haha thats what you had to do haha if it works then do it thats how i do stuff if it aint super big haha

I gotta say i love reading everyone of your posts, makes me think of where's Waldo, except it's find the HAHA.


HAHA Awesome, I'm giddy tonight!