W00t! I suck at gauges!, help me please Options

[turboinduction]

Well... followed the how-to (good i admit) but have a problem. Speedo is ok, temp and gas - ok.... tach... bad, very bad. 0 is 1000. It sticks, like its jumpy going up, and tops off at 5600 instead of 6100. Any help. PLEASE PLEASE dont say "its it catching on the gauge" I checked 3 times. Full clearence. And I did not remove the needle.

Oh, I installed indiglo gauges if you didn't get that already

This post has been edited by turboinduction: Jun 27, 2004 - 1:57 PM

[Wolfgang]

What happened with mine was everytime the covers are off they work fine but as soon as I put the covers of the cluster my needle jumps. So what I did, put the cluster cover back loose and make sure the terminals of the dials are not being pushed by the covers.

[turboinduction]

I'll try that. thanks. keep coming with ideas though


EDIT: I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (in a bro 2 bro way - heh heh)

This post has been edited by turboinduction: Jun 27, 2004 - 2:32 PM

[latinomasfino]

[turboinduction]

its fixed - just like what wolf said. Thanks again

[turboinduction]

oh no - its back again.

Last time I took the gauges out and took off all of the covers. Then I put it back together and it worked. I dont wanna do this again if its just gonna be broken again after a days drive. Does anyone know an exact reason on why the tach is being silly like this. Again, the tach is jumpy. No idle number and it wont increase without jumping 300 at a time.

[Wolfgang]

the main reason is that the dials is touching the gauge plate. And if the covers is pushing the terminals of the gauge the actual plate has a tendency to move up which is touching the dials. Try some more double sided tape (but I did not use a lot on mine) or trim the covers and make sure the terminals are not bent.

[turboinduction]

wolf... just trying to translate for myself to understand

gauge plate is the hard clear plastic that the gauges lay on

terminals are the plug areas for the gauges to light up

and dials are the needles

the terminals are being pressured down causing the opposite end of the gauge plate to lift up hitting the round part of the dials ( the middle ). My problem is that 2 terminals (the tach and the left dummy light area) are laying on top of each other. I've tried bending the terminals down so that one doesn't lift the other but obviously to no prevail. Any help on this?

EDIT: Thanks alot for the help wolf

This post has been edited by turboinduction: Jun 28, 2004 - 1:57 PM

[Wolfgang]

try make a space for the terminals by trimming the covers. I trimmed mine a bit.

[turboinduction]

will do - I got some time later this week

I'll let you know how it goes

[turboinduction]

Just to keep anyone posted on whoever was reading this thread -

I used super glue on the terminals to keep them against the plastic. I bent the speedo terminal down so that pressure wasn't so bad and it has seemed to work great so far. 2 weeks, no problem

[Punch]

does anyone have the little box(tranaformer) ????

[turboinduction]

yea.... but i'm using it?????????