Speedometer Just Stopped?

[GTRAAH]

I bought a Nismo cluster of someone everything was working fine untill today dont know what i did but i know gave it a boot and the plug for the air flow meter unclipped itself i mustnt of clipped it back on properly when i changed the power steering fluid cap. Anyways i plugged it back in and drove it normally i didnt notice anything different. Anyways day turned into night and i jumped back in the car and something unuasual happened when i turned the headlight switch it was everything but the headlghts that turned on. It wasnt untill i flicked it back and forth a couple times they flicked on? This has never happened before. ANyways i started driving and he the speedometer and speed indicator was not moving at all. everything else on cluster works. I have 2 questions

1. WHy did ONLY the headlights not work untill i fli the switch a couple times.

2. what is wrong with my speedo?

Maybe there is a cable in the engine bay that discconnected it self when i booted it>?

[XKLABA]

I'd say the head light switch is on its way out and the speedo in the 32 is cable driven, good chance it has snaped.

[GTRAAH]

Is the headlight switch a common problem?

[GTRsean]

I had to buy a new switch for my 32GTR when I had it.

The problem is that the switch has 4-5 amps of current going through it x2 to power the headlights. They didn't use a relay!!

So after 15+ years the switch gives up and melts/burns it's insides. You can usually see heat damage on the white plug that plugs into the switch.

My solution was, buy a new switch from nissan. The proper solution would be to fit a relay into the headlight wiring to get the high current load out of the switch and just get it to switch the relay on and off.