Hey all! First time post. These forums have helped me tremendously over the past few days, but now I have an issue that I haven't seen any threads cover (forgive me if there are). I have a 95 Ranger XLT 2.3L 5-speed. My truck didn't come with a tach, so after browsing the forums, I figured I could pick one from the junkyard from a ranger/explorer from the same gen, excluding some years. Well, I found a 97 explorer with a beautiful cluster sitting in it so I pulled it, installed it in my ranger, and voila! It worked! RPMs read correctly, everything else too (other than the temp gauge reading a bit high). Well, when leaving work the day after I installed the new cluster, I noticed that my idle was sitting about 200-300 rpms below what it was the day before(the day I installed it). It is sitting at about 500rpm at idle now, when just yesterday it was about 800-900. Also when accelerating, the needle wont go past 3k without sounding like its redlining. Like its slow to move or just reading like 2-3k too low. When just the day before it was dead on, worked like a charm. Does anybody have any ideas to why it was working fine for the first day and a half and now its reading low? Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

I'm pretty confident that the cluster had nothing to do with the engine problems.

Have you cleaned your MAF?

 

Thanks for the response! I'm sorry, I don't think I was very clear haha. My engine is fine. It idles fine and everything. I meant the the needle in the tach is reading lower than it was the first day I installed it. The tach is acting up in some way. Any ideas?

 

I need to research the compatibility of cluster swaps, I thought there was something different about the years

I'll get back with you later when I get home

 

Thank you for your help!