Ya, that is the only thing. How hard is that gonna be? Could I do the battery thing like they did for the speedo?

 

you can turn it by hand or use a drill,its what i did





but you must remove the motor and worm gear asimibly(spelling?) 1st but be careful not to break the plastic holding it in

mark the needle and use spoons to remove it





not hard just take your time

 

I will put the explorer gauge set in with the tach and mark it at idle. What I am gonna do is get the truck warm and mark all of the gauges. Fuel, temp, batt, &oil. I will do the battery thing with the speedo to mark it. Then, I will move all of the motors over to the sport frame. Also move the numbers from my truck over to the explorer motor. I think it will be fine. I got the explorer one today for $20. I will go tomorrow to the junkyard since they are open everyday and get the sport cluster. Hopefully he won't charge my $20 for it since it was under water. We will see what happens.

For fun, I put the AAA battery on the explorer speedo and it goes right to 70 so really easy.

 

Ya, I am gonna move the assembly from my ranger to the explorer one.

 

the only needle you need to play with is the speedo thats only because of mileage

the expo gauges are a direct swap to the ranger and have the same part # on them too

you also dont need power to mark the gauge

 

ok i see why your going to mark them now

but test them out 1st just for kicks lol

 

I got the white one today.

 

I finished up the swap this evening and got it all put together. Not to bad. I thank you guys so much for all the help and especially Fx4wannabe01. Here it is

 

VERY GOOD! i forgot to do the battery to the speedo when i did mine....so i drove down the road, cruise control set to 55mph via gps, and set the neetle. yea i know, dangerous. but it got the job done! Looks great man. Everything work properly?

 

did you hook up the tach? If so how hard was it?

 

came out nice



its a plug and play deal the hardest part is getting the old one out and swaped to the new and thats not that hard

 

Well you just convinced me to do it I might tackle the L.E.D. mod though while swappn em. As for the tach do I just gotta get a cable or anything since my ranger does not have the tach in the cluster?

 

nope plug and play

your truck us already set up for the tach from the factory

 

DANGIT I forgot to ask/check... will a 02 Explorer cluster work with the 98+ Isnt there a year they changed em or sumthing?

 

I dont think so

did you already buy it and if so shot up the link and we can tell ya

 

NOPE! 02 Explorer won't work. BUT...02 Explorer Sport and Explorer Sport Trac will work.

 

No I didnt buy it yet... almost though. I like the white faces thats why I asked and that one caught my eye,

Was looking at that one,
linky

Might end up with this one,linky


I looked at this one cause its silver/gray (i think) but doubt it would work...
linky

 

^^ALL three will work! The first one is an Expo cluster. Second looks like a ranger one or older explo. Last one is a 03 only silver one. it'll work on all 03 and older trucks though.

Just remember to get the right drivetrain one....meaning like 4x4 if your a 4x4....

 

Guess Im stuck with the 3rd one then its the only 2wd one on there

 

the silver cluster and the white cluster are both 2wd. The black one is hard to tell.

 

Nope, I had no problems at all. I ended up buying the two clusters and making one good one. I pretty much just moved the white face and needles to the black explorer one.

I love it! The white one looks so much better. It looks awesome in the dash compared to the black one. I was surprised that I found the white one at the junkyard.

 

Oh ya, I got the white one for $14.00

 

My cluster is 4 wheel drive and it works fine on my truck (mine is 2wd). You just see where it says "4wd high" and "4wd Low".

 

rub it in, rub it in....

haha yea I'd go treasure hunting but I work 8-5 mon-fri, and guess what that happens to be the same exact same hours as the junkyards....imagine that.

 

i hate working dayshift for that one reason....6a-6p. you can't go anywhere because everywhere is closed. lol.


imo....if you don't have cruise, i think it's a no biggie in my book seeing the "cruise" idiot light. just like the 4x4 showing....it's all up to you.

$14! daum man.