Gauge issue
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Gauge issue
So I took a instrument cluster from. 93 6 cylinder manual ranger and stuck it into my 94 2.3l 4 cylinder manual ranger for the tach considering mine did not come with one... through research I have found that it is rarely plug and play... well I have gotten a response from the tach needle(not sure how accurate, please let me know if I can adjust this) the speedometer seems to be a little further off so I may swap the speedo needle from the 94 cluster for better accuracy... the problem I have is this, my gas gauge now doesn’t work... when I turn on the vehicle it goes past full and works down to below empty and stays there... the other cluster the gas gauge half worked... ergo it would work at a quarter, half and full... any advice? Thanks a million in advance.
Fuel gauge, the 1993 cluster probably has a bad Anti-slosh Module, not uncommon, try the one from the old cluster
Tach, the V6 engines used TWO grounds at the tach, 4cyl only 1 ground, there should be 2 multi-wire connectors on the cluster, A and B
A9, black and yellow wire, should not be there on 4cyl wiring harness, if it is remove it and tach should show correct RPMs
1994 and earlier Speedometer is calibrated by the gear in the transmission, speedo either works or it doesn't, nothing electric involved
B5 should be a yellow/white wire, thats the fuel gauge wire from the tank, you can test it with an OHM meter, should show between 16 and 160 ohms, 16 is empty, 160 full, rock the truck and OHMS should change as fuel sloshes around, if all is well then wiring and float in the tank is OK, issue is in the cluster
Tach, the V6 engines used TWO grounds at the tach, 4cyl only 1 ground, there should be 2 multi-wire connectors on the cluster, A and B
A9, black and yellow wire, should not be there on 4cyl wiring harness, if it is remove it and tach should show correct RPMs
1994 and earlier Speedometer is calibrated by the gear in the transmission, speedo either works or it doesn't, nothing electric involved
B5 should be a yellow/white wire, thats the fuel gauge wire from the tank, you can test it with an OHM meter, should show between 16 and 160 ohms, 16 is empty, 160 full, rock the truck and OHMS should change as fuel sloshes around, if all is well then wiring and float in the tank is OK, issue is in the cluster
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Fuel gauge, the 1993 cluster probably has a bad Anti-slosh Module, not uncommon, try the one from the old cluster
Tach, the V6 engines used TWO grounds at the tach, 4cyl only 1 ground, there should be 2 multi-wire connectors on the cluster, A and B
A9, black and yellow wire, should not be there on 4cyl wiring harness, if it is remove it and tach should show correct RPMs
1994 and earlier Speedometer is calibrated by the gear in the transmission, speedo either works or it doesn't, nothing electric involved
B5 should be a yellow/white wire, thats the fuel gauge wire from the tank, you can test it with an OHM meter, should show between 16 and 160 ohms, 16 is empty, 160 full, rock the truck and OHMS should change as fuel sloshes around, if all is well then wiring and float in the tank is OK, issue is in the cluster
Tach, the V6 engines used TWO grounds at the tach, 4cyl only 1 ground, there should be 2 multi-wire connectors on the cluster, A and B
A9, black and yellow wire, should not be there on 4cyl wiring harness, if it is remove it and tach should show correct RPMs
1994 and earlier Speedometer is calibrated by the gear in the transmission, speedo either works or it doesn't, nothing electric involved
B5 should be a yellow/white wire, thats the fuel gauge wire from the tank, you can test it with an OHM meter, should show between 16 and 160 ohms, 16 is empty, 160 full, rock the truck and OHMS should change as fuel sloshes around, if all is well then wiring and float in the tank is OK, issue is in the cluster
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Ok, put the anti slosh from the first cluster into the second, no longer goes to full and gradually falls to zero, check. Clipped the red and black wire for second tach ground, check. I swear I can keep a vehicle running engine wise, but all the internal wiring is foreign lol. Thanks again rob for the translation!
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