Feel like a jackass

[baby6]

Well, ....

I took my dash apart to see why my speedo wasn't working. Needle broken, cool ok. Speedo cluster out, fuel gauge and factory tach out. Driving to work and wanted to know how much gas I had... Well I was being retarded and tried stuffing my fuel gauge back in, and the three prongs coming out of the cluster going to the fuel gauge... One was loose so I tried pushing it back in its place and accidentally shorted it out to one of its friends. Big cloud of smoke, now my fuel gauge doesn't work and when I turn my dash lights on via the dimmer switch, my torque converter unlocks and mph on the scan master go to zero. -_- need advice guys. Sorry for being stupid!!

 

[Nick Micale]

We all have bad days, but if you have them too often only then can you be classified as a "jackass"!

You probably fried the printed circuit board in the dash, and hopefully not the wiring harness or connector to the dash?

 

[baby6]

I would be more prone to think it's the circuit board, I took the cluster partially apart and all wires look good. Reading up on this piece though it appears to be semi difficult to remove? Particularly the speedo cable...

 

[SHADOWII]

Should be a spring clip holding the spd cable in place. Press the clip away from the cable, I think it's located on the bottom and at the end of the cable connection to the back of the dashboard, and the cable should pull out.

 

[turbofrank]

When working on electrical components disconnect battery .

 

[Bruce Urie]

We all have bad days, but if you have them too often only then can you be classified as a "jackass"!

You probably fried the printed circuit board in the dash, and hopefully not the wiring harness or connector to the dash?

Yep, Nick, we all have bad days......want to borrow my harmonic balancer?

Bruce '87 Grand National

 

[baby6]

Does anybody know which instrument panels will work for our cars? As in the actual circuitry behind the gauges. You do have the factory tach and boost gauge, so is it a GN panel circuit board only?

 

[aminga]

The only difference between a NA and Turbo Analog circuit board is a little cutout for the tach you can modify an NA board by cutting this out using the old one for a template

 

[baby6]

Thanks man! Time to look for one.