I installed a 01 Sport Trac(white faced) cluster in my "96 Ranger,temp guage goes to high after warm up,check gauge lite comes on,plug old cluster in and it works normal(which is out of a 99 Explorer) ,check temp and its running 194*,got new temp/fuel gauge and still same problem.......is there more than "plug and play" on these clusters????...help please,going friggin' nuts trying to figure this out.............Thanks

 

The dash harness wiring looks similar between the two. If your original Ranger cluster has a tach, you might be able to swap just the temp/fuel segment between the clusters. That should tell you if the gauge itself is OK or not.

 

tried old guage in the Sport Tac pod,but it would not read at all,did buy new guage for the Sport Trac cluster and same problem.......I'm thinking maybe a bad printed circuit?

 

cheching a lil' further into it here at work,I see my '96 temp sending unit is a single pin,vs the Sport Trac takes a 2 pin sending unit.....could be this is why it will not work????????

 

i had the same problem when i swapped a sport trac cluster into my 95. if you look on the back of the temp gauge on your 96 cluster you will see a single resistor on there, the sport trac ones don't have one so you need to swap the temp gauges from the clusters. mine works normal now after i swapped them out

 

If I understand you right,use all the Sport Trac cluster,minus the temp guage,if so,how did you get the pointer back to the correct position?......

 

Thanks for the help!!!!!,did as you said and I have got a fully working cluster!!!..Thanks Tim..........