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Hey guys,

After months of intermittent flickering/bouncing of my tacho needle....its seems as though my tacho has finally had enough and wont run past 2000rpm any more!

I've read the DIY guide by 'pushead' on removing the instrumentation cluster and it seems to be fairly easy.....btw awsome guide (lots of detail an great pics)...cheers.

I still have a few question though -

1) The guide finishes with the cluster coming out of the dash, but still connected.....what happens next? Are the wires running to the cluster - soldered? or do they use connnectors?

2) When replacing the cluster, do you need to calibrate it? How do u go about this calibration proceedure?

3) Does anyone know where i can buy a 'new' cluster? or can u only buy 2nd hand ones? How much am i expecting to pay?

4) Do you know of any instrumentation experts where i can get the work done? How much roughly am i looking at? (I dont know if i will do the work myself or not? It depends on how much stuffing around is involved and how cheap it is - to simply get the work done by someone else.)

Cheers,

:P

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Hey guys,

After months of intermittent flickering/bouncing of my tacho needle....its seems as though my tacho has finally had enough and wont run past 2000rpm any more!

I've read the DIY guide by 'pushead' on removing the instrumentation cluster and it seems to be fairly easy.....btw awsome guide (lots of detail an great pics)...cheers.

I still have a few question though -

1) The guide finishes with the cluster coming out of the dash, but still connected.....what happens next? Are the wires running to the cluster - soldered? or do they use connnectors?

2) When replacing the cluster, do you need to calibrate it? How do u go about this calibration proceedure?

3) Does anyone know where i can buy a 'new' cluster? or can u only buy 2nd hand ones? How much am i expecting to pay?

4) Do you know of any instrumentation experts where i can get the work done? How much roughly am i looking at? (I dont know if i will do the work myself or not? It depends on how much stuffing around is involved and how cheap it is - to simply get the work done by someone else.)

Cheers,

:P

To answer your questions in order...

1) The wires to the cluster use connectors - just need to pop them out

2) I didn't calibrate my speedo when I installed my Nismo dash, but i did do some sanity checks - i.e checked the speed displayed on the speedo against the speed readout on my PFC and also got my g/f to drive next to my car and compared my speedo with the speed her car was displaying at 60, 80 and 100km/h. My speedo was pretty much spot on (give or take), so didn't bother calibrating, although I would've done so if it was substantially out.

3) I doubt that you'll be able to get a new dash cluster, although if they were available, then a Nissan dealer would be the best bet (they may be able to order in). If you're after a second hand dash, I have one in perfect working condition that came out of my S2 R33 that I'd sell for $150 (plus postage).

4) Replacing the dash is pretty easy - the DIY guide is excellent and you should be able to do it yourself without any problems, so you shouldn't need to pay anyone to do it for you.

Cheers :happy:

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If you pull the cluster apart its possible to find whats wrong with it.

There could be a few 'dry' connections where the female connector is connected to the circuit board. you can tell this by looking at them and if the solder looks as if it has been broken.

This happened a to my pulsar when I had it. Just had re-solder those connections and bob's your aunty.

You might have a different problem though.

ps. why was this posted in the DIY section aswell?

NISMO_R33_GTS_T Apprentice

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cheers guys :huh:

i think ill take a look at it myself first...see if i can work out why its playing up, then go from there.

p.s. im not sure why this post appears in the DIY section as well - the first time i tried to post it, i accidently posted it in the DIY section and a message came up saying i couldnt post it in that section (the post was cancelled!) So i decided to post it here instead . Now its appearing in both??? I dunno? :happy:

NISMO_R33_GTS_T Apprentice

NISMO_R33_GTS_T

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It appears as though i have lost my copy of the DIY guide pushead posted about removing the instrumentation cluster!

Ive searched though the entire forum and cant seem to find a link that works (there is a DIY post with a link to pusheads guide - but the link doesnt work!) :)

Just wondering if anyone could re-post or re-link the guide....it would come in very handy, as i was planning on having a play with it tommorrow.

Cheers,

:)

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