the bottom part of the gauge cluster wont work, such as fuel, speado, tach, and temp i think (not sure). checked all fuses and whatnot but nothing.....has anyone had this problem?the 2 in the top left corner and the top right corner work fine, the oil and something else..again dont remember.

any ideas?

 

Andre, my gauges have been giving me problems for a while now. On mine the speedo, oil and voltage have stopped working. I tore apart the pod (not real hard to do) and started checking things. Of course I cleaned up all connections and made sure the three plugs were making good connection. I am almost 100% sure that its my printed circuit board going bad. We can order them from any of the big three. For my 79 in cost 55 bucks. Not bad huh. I will have it next week and see what happens. I really think this will fix my problems since I have been troubleshooting this problem for a while now. (i have been driving around with just the cluster sitting there with all the wires hanging.

Good luck..

 

Double check fuse #24. Mine had the same problem and it was an interior light short that was causing this fuse to blow. Knocked out speedo, tach, digital display etc...

 

did it knock out your upper 2 corner gauges doug??

this might be errelavent but this was RIGHT after a waterpump job....finished that and when put the new battery in they just died, they worked right up intil i changed the battery, if thats any help.

 

No, my two upper guages still worked(voltmeter and ?) when this happened.

 

I just got done fixing my printed circ. There are little brass rivets on there that transfer signal from top to bottom of the ribbon. Well they get corrosion under them and get lose and its all over. I took a soldering iron to mine checked every path way with a ohm meter and 2 hours later had a pod that finally works. Now ta new on would have been mush easyer but couldnt get it here in time with my limmited funds for a trip i was takeing. Nice thing about this not only did it fix the problem of speedo not working, but also my fuel and volt gauge dont sag any more.

Thurston 84 euro AT

 

Check your main power cable it runs from the front left hand side where you put the jumper cable to start your car, follow that down by your belts. My cable was worn through by the belts and my entire pod was dead except the 2 gauges. Replaced that harness fixed my problem