Digital Dash Problem
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Digital Dash Problem
Anybody seen a digital dash problem like this before? Ive been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out!!!!!!
I turn the key on the dash display looks great... Start the engine and the cluster goes goofy...
Check the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdULEgJT8kw
Thanks Don
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I turn the key on the dash display looks great... Start the engine and the cluster goes goofy...
Check the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdULEgJT8kw
Thanks Don
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From: Port Charlotte Fl
had a similar problem when i first got mine, it would just go nuts, tach would work backwards, oil pressure was showing 0 etc, pulled the dash apart, and relowed all the connections, and cleaned up all the grounds, problem disappeared completely
Le Mans Master
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From: Louisiana
Yep. Take the dash cluster out and clean all the connections/contacts with CFC electrical cleaner. Make sure everything looks good when you put it back in. Also there are two grounds for the dash cluster. I could be a little wrong without a refrence to follow, but I think one is on the driverside head and the other is under the carpet on the driverside footwell. Others will correct me if wrong. If that doesn't do the trick, you will more than likely need to send it off for service.
Le Mans Master
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From: seattle WA
I'd bet money it's NOT a ground problem!!!!!!!
I think CC hit it on the head.
Here's what happened to me....same symptoms, everything was pretty much going crazy..and it only happened after I had done a tune up, turns out when I installed a new coil (in the cap) I pinched one of the coil wires..it was actually arcing in there......this may not be your problem..but I'd be putting in a new coil..there alot cheaper than a rebuilt cluster, or at least trouble shoot the coil.
I think CC hit it on the head.
Here's what happened to me....same symptoms, everything was pretty much going crazy..and it only happened after I had done a tune up, turns out when I installed a new coil (in the cap) I pinched one of the coil wires..it was actually arcing in there......this may not be your problem..but I'd be putting in a new coil..there alot cheaper than a rebuilt cluster, or at least trouble shoot the coil.
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Le Mans Master
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From: seattle WA
Glad it was a simple fix....I've got Gordon Killebrews book...no where does it mention checking the coil..unless I over looked it, and I even talked with him when I was having that issue....it just bugged me that it just did it after the tune up...so I doubled checked what I'd done, that's when I found the coil issue. To bad I can't make a sticky, could save guys a few hundred bucks for a $30. repair.
Instructor
Joined: Jun 2002
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From: 80/680 junction Ca.
Mine has done that twice just after a tune up, along with a high speed miss.
I'm changing my coil.
Hope that's the fix for both problems.
Is the magnet on the coil supposed to flop around?
I'm changing my coil.
Hope that's the fix for both problems.
Is the magnet on the coil supposed to flop around?
