Secret237

I cannot do it with my fingers alone, getting the knives Quote: Originally Posted by Secret237 Ok, trying now

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4Crawler

From the 4x4wire post:

"Then I pulled the needles off with a pair of spoons under the base of the needle"

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Secret237

I am bending the metal shaft ... still not off

Secret237

Ok, got the black plastic cap off, broke it of course, but I can fix that, I can fix anything !!
Still got to get that needle off though. Looks like splines on the shaft

Secret237

I am going to try heat in a min. here

Secret237

Got it, no heat, but it was the shaft that came out of the gauge !! The plastic needle is still on the splined shaft !!
Just poped off and hit me in the head ... I was actually scared of bending my knives.

I've probably broken it, but IDK, I think all I need to do is glue it all back together !! Gauge still seems to work, there is now a sharp pin like thing sticking just above the surface, the needle shaft was over, or around.
But at least I'm there, Thanks

Geeze ... laugh

Secret237

I'm now advancing my odometer, still going to take a while, it's at 180,000 miles now and I have to take it up to just over 308,000 ... most people would turn it back !!!

I guess I'm a fool, it's just I put all those 308,000 miles on myself and I just don't want to go back.

Secret237

I figured if I had used a drill motor to run it up it would have taken over 80 days at 60 miles per hour 24/7 I would have bruned up my drill motor !!

This is easier ??

Laugh

Secret237

I'm now able to advance it at over 1 mile a second ( more like a mile every .75 sec. )

Still will take over 26 hours at this rate !!

Laugh, maybe I'll get faster

Secret237

I'm able to go about 125 miles a min. which is 7,500 miles per hour

Not bad for a 4 cly.

Secret237

15,000 miles per hour !!!

elshamrocko

I wouldn't have been able to get mine working without this piece of advice right here. So thanks a lot for the help. BTW... on mine it was the screw on the left.

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mmcpeck

I read all 7 pages of this post, maybe I skipped something not sure, but can somebody tell me what I need to do to make an SR5 cluster from a '95 Runner V6 Auto work in my '92 Pickup V6 5spd?

I've seen it mentioned but haven't seen exactly what the problem going from Auto to Manual is as far as the gauges. Somebody mentioned the OD off light and the ECT light on the dash of an Auto cluster, but wouldn't they just stay off if I put the cluster on a Manual?

Is there any other issues with going from and Auto to Manual other than these lights, and if so what are they and what are the fixes?

Thanks.

Windsor

My advice is to start a thread in the appropriate forum with your question.

You'll get more attention from those who might know the answer -- the instrument clusters are quite different between 84/85 and 92/95.

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* SmittyBilt granny step bar
* SR5 Instrument Cluster

mmcpeck

Yup did that Windsor, what I got was a link to this post, not even sure this post should be in this forum. So I read 7 pages of great information that answered almost all of my questions, except the Auto tranny question.

To be honest it never even occured to me that there would any difference at all...still not sure what difference a tranny would make to a Tach, but I saw it mentioned and just wanted to check before I went and got one out of an Auto truck.

Thanks.

escodan760

i did this swap in my 85 4runner, it was all plug and play. not sure of the fuel yet, just had to clean the tank, it was sitting for two years, also replaced the fuel pump inside, just got it started today. onlky a couple of gallons in there so we will see

chuntr

I recently had to do the opposite, which I haven't seen documented elsewhere on here. I have an 88 5 speed and I just put in an SR5 cluster from an 86 automatic. both V6 trucks. its almost the reverse of the above but it's a little simpler. my truck is EFI so it was pre-wired for the tachometer. otherwise you can run the wire from your coil to the A5 terminal.

connectors and wires are labeled on the dash cluster where they plug in. here are the steps for putting an auto cluster in a dash wired for a manual:

move yellow/black wire from A3 to A2 (oil light/guage)
move purple wire from A5 to A4 (check engine light)
move black wire from A6 to A5 (tach lead)

move yellow/red wire from C5 to C6 (fuel gauge)
move brown wire from C4 to C5 (fuel gauge)

I am not 100% on the fuel gauge wiring because mine didn't work before the swap and still doesn't. the brown wire was brown/black on the auto cluster but i traced everything out on both clusters and they seem to go to the same places. everything else seems to work fine.

FZRDude

I have a turbo cluster, unknown year/model. Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to put this into a 85 carbed, auto, truck?

shore.runner

I just did this and...

I fried the oil gauge ( oops) , my tach doesnt work, and my fuel gauge doesnt work....

I already read all this stuff about the tach, i took this cluster out of my parts truck, which it worked on, and it didnt have that little green thing on the coil.

Im so confused!?!

I want my gas gauge to work too, any help ?

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minimudder

Thank you fot the great write-up.

theBurlyone

I have an 85 SR5, so in other words it came with that cluster stock. My point is that my temp gauge does that on my truck as well so I think that might be normal.

dorado23

just did my cluster had to run wire for tach but cant get temp to work with new cluster any idea how to fix