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please help all my gauges went dead!

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Old 04-17-12, 06:28 AM
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please help all my gauges went dead!

i was driving me gsl-se last night my speedometer has always not worked but everything else was working fine then this morning when i start her up nothing all of them were just dead any clues?
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found the problem knocked one of the fuses off haha but my speedometer still is limp
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Speedometer is not electrically driven; it works off a mechanical, rotating cable connected from the trans to the back of the speedo. It may have become unclipped behind the speedo, or it may have broken.
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He's right

Originally Posted by DivinDriver
Speedometer is not electrically driven; it works off a mechanical, rotating cable connected from the trans to the back of the speedo. It may have become unclipped behind the speedo, or it may have broken.
He's right, my clip is screwed up so I use a wire tie in the engine compartment to tighten the speedo cable. It's tied to the clip attached to the engine that holds the wiring harness in place. Seems to work.

The downside is, if the cable backs out, no big deal except no speedo. If the cable backs out and for some reason goes forward, you end up with a little drill drilling into your flexible circuit board on the cluster.
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thanks guys ill check it out today after work
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