Need help real badly with speedometer
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Need help real badly with speedometer I was installing the gauge overlays and i had to take the needles off. when i came back to install everything, the needles are not even working anymore. the overlays are alpha otto reverse glow. i dont know what the **** to do now. do i need to recalibrate everything with my laptop. and if so how do i do that???
u probably put the needles on to tight, put a fork on the speedometer, then on top of the fork, put the need on, thats about the spacing it should be, you should be ok
You just put them on in the wrong place and they are pegging out...
Take them all back off, LEAVE THE FACE EXPOSED (so you can push them back on) but the cluster pushed in (installed)... Start the car.
Speedometer: You are going 0mph so install the needle so that it is pointing to 0mph (as low as it will go on the peg that stops it)
Tachometer: If you have a laptop, see what idle is and put the needle on accordingly, if not you will have to buy/borrow/buy and take back and external tach to check it with...
Fuel Level: You can re-install this one at the gas station AFTER you fill up
Temperature: As long as the car was sitting overnight (aka: it's cold) install this as low as it will go (160 resting on the peg)
Oil Pressure: A laptop will come in handy for sure...
Volt: Buy/borrow/buy and take back a voltmeter gauge and set accordingly
Take them all back off, LEAVE THE FACE EXPOSED (so you can push them back on) but the cluster pushed in (installed)... Start the car.
Speedometer: You are going 0mph so install the needle so that it is pointing to 0mph (as low as it will go on the peg that stops it)
Tachometer: If you have a laptop, see what idle is and put the needle on accordingly, if not you will have to buy/borrow/buy and take back and external tach to check it with...
Fuel Level: You can re-install this one at the gas station AFTER you fill up
Temperature: As long as the car was sitting overnight (aka: it's cold) install this as low as it will go (160 resting on the peg)
Oil Pressure: A laptop will come in handy for sure...
Volt: Buy/borrow/buy and take back a voltmeter gauge and set accordingly
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so how do i use the laptop method, do i have to buy/download any software or hardware. i believe i got everything workin, except the speedometer, but im not 100% sure about the rest of the needles.
Originally Posted by Yahelou
so how do i use the laptop method, do i have to buy/download any software or hardware. i believe i got everything workin, except the speedometer, but im not 100% sure about the rest of the needles.
Since you don't, follow all the above methods without a laptop (you can buy/borrow/buy and take back all the gauges you need from autozone) EXCEPT for the oil pressure. Unfortunately, you will have to just take a survey see what everyone else's sits at during idle and go with that...
Or, I just thought of this... Borrow someone else's cluster (1998 only works in 1998's but 1999+ are the same) install it. Make a note paper of where all the needles sit at idle... Reinstall yours, start the car and put all the needles where they should be at idle.
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Originally Posted by Yahelou
what if i took it to the dealership, how much would they charge??
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Not trying to jack up this thread. i have a similar problem with my 1994 z28. i installed a white face back in 1997 and my tach,mph,temp, needles never work right anymore. i pulled the dash out and i can push down on the white face overlay and can tell certain area's the sticky part has come up and won't go back down.
so whats my next step?? if i pull it off and buy another one how will it stick good with the old sticky stuff on there?
what happens if i remove all the needles? as said in the above post i can just put them back on once the car is running and gas is full with no problems? i HAD a tool back in 97 when i installed them to remove the needles,but how do i remove them with out harming them. what bout installing them also?
so whats my next step?? if i pull it off and buy another one how will it stick good with the old sticky stuff on there?
what happens if i remove all the needles? as said in the above post i can just put them back on once the car is running and gas is full with no problems? i HAD a tool back in 97 when i installed them to remove the needles,but how do i remove them with out harming them. what bout installing them also?
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Originally Posted by DEMONBIRD
They would probably tell you to buy a new cluster... What year is your car? Where are you located?
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a quick question, when u guys turn off ur car. does all the needles go back to zero? also, what is the software that i can use to help me, can i download it? thanks a lot for ur help guys. if i knew it was gonna turn out like this, i would have not put that damn overlay in.
Originally Posted by Yahelou
anybody??
