Funky needle behavior
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First a little back story...
I got some reverse-glo gauges for my 202 Mustang v6. A little ricey, but I like them a lot. Anyway, instillation went without a hitch. No need to remove the needles since they are spring loaded! The gauges slipped on nicely, no problems what so ever. Installed the gauge pod back into the car, everything worked perfectly. All needles were at pre-instillation points. Only one oops: we spliced the new gauges into the wrong wire. Constant power instead of the headlight wire (light brown as opposed to dark brown wires). Easy fix, just popped everything back open, re-spliced and fixed the constant wire, eveything works great! This was about 48 hours ago...
This morning, I start the car and the tach is stuck at 0. I bang on the cluster, and it unsticks briefly, sticking again around 1k. The spedo is the same way, sticking around 30 MPH or just not moving at all, no matter my speed. What in the world is going on??
I hope I don't need to take out the cluster AGAIN... getting that headlight switch off is a
I got some reverse-glo gauges for my 202 Mustang v6. A little ricey, but I like them a lot. Anyway, instillation went without a hitch. No need to remove the needles since they are spring loaded! The gauges slipped on nicely, no problems what so ever. Installed the gauge pod back into the car, everything worked perfectly. All needles were at pre-instillation points. Only one oops: we spliced the new gauges into the wrong wire. Constant power instead of the headlight wire (light brown as opposed to dark brown wires). Easy fix, just popped everything back open, re-spliced and fixed the constant wire, eveything works great! This was about 48 hours ago...
This morning, I start the car and the tach is stuck at 0. I bang on the cluster, and it unsticks briefly, sticking again around 1k. The spedo is the same way, sticking around 30 MPH or just not moving at all, no matter my speed. What in the world is going on??
I hope I don't need to take out the cluster AGAIN... getting that headlight switch off is a
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UPDATE: Just took the car out for a drive. Once again, the needles for the tach and speedo stuck. However, after warming up the car a bit they both unstuck. I'll post one more update tomorrow at work (provided I'm not snowed in!)
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UPDATE - Tach and speedo stuck again this morning. The tach unstuck just before turning the car off once arriving at work, but the speedo remained stuck. I have no idea what is going on!!
:bang:
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UPDATE: Not as cold this afternoon. All needles functioned normally. Must be something with the cold causing the needles to malfunction...
Kinda dissapointed no one knew what was going on...
Kinda dissapointed no one knew what was going on...
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