flickering dash 1990 corvette
07-08-2015, 05:33 PM
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flickering dash 1990 corvette
i got into my vette this morning and the dash started flickering. this is the first time it started this. does anyone have a idea of what is going on. i included a video.
07-08-2015, 10:51 PM
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Clean the ground just in front of the driver door under the carpet
07-09-2015, 08:23 AM
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I had a similar problem on my 90
Spoke to Gordon Killebrew
He told me to check the ground on my HEI coil
Checked and found the ground wasn't good
Replaced coil, issue resolved
Spoke to Gordon Killebrew
He told me to check the ground on my HEI coil
Checked and found the ground wasn't good
Replaced coil, issue resolved
07-09-2015, 06:58 PM
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07-09-2015, 07:02 PM
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Any other things flickering?
07-09-2015, 11:21 PM
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Hmm, I had taken my cluster out and sent it off as I went through the FSM
I was ready to remove the wiring harness and thought for all that trouble a quick call to Gordon was worth the $50
Perhaps you should try a call before sending out the cluster, if you're at that stage?
I was ready to remove the wiring harness and thought for all that trouble a quick call to Gordon was worth the $50
Perhaps you should try a call before sending out the cluster, if you're at that stage?
07-10-2015, 01:22 AM
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Hmm, I had taken my cluster out and sent it off as I went through the FSM
I was ready to remove the wiring harness and thought for all that trouble a quick call to Gordon was worth the $50
Perhaps you should try a call before sending out the cluster, if you're at that stage?
I was ready to remove the wiring harness and thought for all that trouble a quick call to Gordon was worth the $50
Perhaps you should try a call before sending out the cluster, if you're at that stage?
07-10-2015, 03:36 AM
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I had very similar symptoms with my '91, the only difference was that sometimes half of the segmets disappeared like that:
You can see, that there is also km/h and MPG readings lit at the same time, which should be impossible (one is metric and the other isn't). Reason for this behaviour was, that there was a minor crack in the top of the lcd panel
You can see, that there is also km/h and MPG readings lit at the same time, which should be impossible (one is metric and the other isn't). Reason for this behaviour was, that there was a minor crack in the top of the lcd panel
07-10-2015, 07:44 AM
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I had very similar symptoms with my '91, the only difference was that sometimes half of the segmets disappeared like that:
You can see, that there is also km/h and MPG readings lit at the same time, which should be impossible (one is metric and the other isn't). Reason for this behaviour was, that there was a minor crack in the top of the lcd panel
Where did you get a replacement lcd
You can see, that there is also km/h and MPG readings lit at the same time, which should be impossible (one is metric and the other isn't). Reason for this behaviour was, that there was a minor crack in the top of the lcd panel
Where did you get a replacement lcd
07-10-2015, 08:06 AM
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I replaced the whole thing with a used IC from a vendor here in Finland (I think that was from '90). Then I bought a used IC from a '93 (because of the 'hyphens' in the background of the scales of the gauges), but the lcd and tachometer were 'kaput'. So I took the oil pressure, coolant temp etc. gauges put them into the other IC...
Collection:
Trying the '93 IC (no flickering, just erratic segments)
The final solution in its place:
Collection:
Trying the '93 IC (no flickering, just erratic segments)
The final solution in its place:
07-10-2015, 10:26 AM
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I replaced the whole thing with a used IC from a vendor here in Finland (I think that was from '90). Then I bought a used IC from a '93 (because of the 'hyphens' in the background of the scales of the gauges), but the lcd and tachometer were 'kaput'. So I took the oil pressure, coolant temp etc. gauges put them into the other IC...
Collection:
Trying the '93 IC (no flickering, just erratic segments)
The final solution in its place:
Collection:
Trying the '93 IC (no flickering, just erratic segments)
The final solution in its place:
07-11-2015, 12:11 AM
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