Dodgy Dash

[steve_earwig]

We need a thread for them to save "the mods" too much legwork. Hold on...

[steve_earwig]

The knowledgebase would be better and I think it's up to us to pick them out, rather than give poor Nick the huge job of finding them, maybe a thread to propose them and then we can agree on whether they're useful enough.

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[teamster1975]

Well done that man
I'll have a trawl through myself when I finish work.

[Parish]

Righto, Thanks for all your help and knowledge, it seems to still be doing it so im assuming the clocks are buggered, everything else works fine just the speedoand rev counter, does anyone know of anyone with some deisel clocks for an N reg, belive its a mk1

[teamster1975]

Righto, Thanks for all your help and knowledge, it seems to still be doing it so im assuming the clocks are buggered, everything else works fine just the speedoand rev counter, does anyone know of anyone with some deisel clocks for an N reg, belive its a mk1

Before you do that, the speedo control module behind the glovebox is known to go faulty, also the sender unit on the gearbox

[steve_earwig]

That wouldn't affect the rev counter

[teamster1975]

That's very true.
Parish, Run the engine while you've got the dash cluster out and wiggle the plugs/sockets; see if the rev counter starts behaving.

[Parish]

Yeah tried that when i had them out, had a good fiddle about with them to see if something would give me a clue but nothing, frustrating or what, looks like its a set of new clocks

[teamster1975]

Hmm... This is bugging me now
On my D8 LX the rev and speedo did exactly the same as yours; a good smack on the dash made them show correctly for a second or so; cause was a dry joint somewhere on the pcb. Sorry I can't help any more Parish!

[Parish]

when you Say PCB what actually do you mean, cos when i take the clocks out there in three pieces, theres the back with wires plugged in to it then that has some sort of rods on it sticking out and the middle has holes in that the rods sit in ?

[steve_earwig]

Oh. My. God. Does anyone know where that pic is?

[teamster1975]

when you Say PCB what actually do you mean, cos when i take the clocks out there in three pieces, theres the back with wires plugged in to it then that has some sort of rods on it sticking out and the middle has holes in that the rods sit in ?

When you split the cluster you've got a green circuit board that is recessed which the dials plug into. It's this one.
Make sure that you remove the pronged clamp from the reverse side next to the yellow connector; this is a devil to get off, I used a mini stanley blade. BE VERY CAREFUL YOU DON'T CUT ONE OF THE TRACKS ON THE FLAT CABLE!
With this removed you can extract the board and get soldering!
On reassembly, bend the teeth of the clamp back in a bit so that they apply good pressure to the flat cable onto the riser connector; this can cause weird problems if one of the tracks is not making good contact.

Edit: Steve, I've got a spare instrument cluster, I'll knock up a pictorial guide sometime.

[steve_earwig]

Cool, you know where to stick it

[teamster1975]

Cool, you know where to stick it

Knowing your sense of humour I'll tread carefully here!

[steve_earwig]

Am I getting a bad rep or summit? In the knowledge base!