- Sun Jan 26, 2014 1:38 am
#341807
[vent]
So I pulled my Sedan into the shop to patch a portion of the exhaust, which involved putting a new sleeve in place. That was the easy part. But then i'm sitting there in the car letting it idle and then decide that now's the perfect time to pull my gauge cluster out and figure out why my speedo was being finicky and fixed itself temporarily whenever I pounded on the dash.
I pull it out, check the screws and grounds and such and put it back in. Well now a light went out, so I pull it again and twist the bulb, and it comes back on. Apparently the circuit board was off a little, so I check them all and put it back in, and now my fuel gauge drop down to zero and my temp gauge shot to max. So I pull it again and check it and now my temp gauge dropped down to zero and wont respond.
Long story short, my fuel gauge, temp gauge, and possibly my speedo don't work anymore! I searched on here and discovered that if you tighten the screws (like I did), you risk breaking the copper and I think I did that across the board, and I think there's a ground out in the flexible circuit board because the dimmer flickers everything when it's turned low...
And icing on the cake, I'm pissed off and I vent to my boyfriend what happened and he tells me to just calm down and get one from a junkyard. Never tell your pissed off girlfriend/wife, transgender or not, to calm down, it only infuriates her...
[/vent]
So now I need to get two clusters from junkyards. One for the Sedan, and I wanna swap out the Integra cluster in the Hatch because the odometer doesn't work at all and the tach jumps all over the place after 4k RPM...
So I pulled my Sedan into the shop to patch a portion of the exhaust, which involved putting a new sleeve in place. That was the easy part. But then i'm sitting there in the car letting it idle and then decide that now's the perfect time to pull my gauge cluster out and figure out why my speedo was being finicky and fixed itself temporarily whenever I pounded on the dash.
I pull it out, check the screws and grounds and such and put it back in. Well now a light went out, so I pull it again and twist the bulb, and it comes back on. Apparently the circuit board was off a little, so I check them all and put it back in, and now my fuel gauge drop down to zero and my temp gauge shot to max. So I pull it again and check it and now my temp gauge dropped down to zero and wont respond.
Long story short, my fuel gauge, temp gauge, and possibly my speedo don't work anymore! I searched on here and discovered that if you tighten the screws (like I did), you risk breaking the copper and I think I did that across the board, and I think there's a ground out in the flexible circuit board because the dimmer flickers everything when it's turned low...
And icing on the cake, I'm pissed off and I vent to my boyfriend what happened and he tells me to just calm down and get one from a junkyard. Never tell your pissed off girlfriend/wife, transgender or not, to calm down, it only infuriates her...
[/vent]
So now I need to get two clusters from junkyards. One for the Sedan, and I wanna swap out the Integra cluster in the Hatch because the odometer doesn't work at all and the tach jumps all over the place after 4k RPM...