instrument panel issues

[Guest Anonymous]

Hi all,

I'm having substantial instrument panel issues on my 74 '02. These problems all cropped up within the last two or so months. Here is what does *not* work:

speedometer - the speedometer appears to be dead, with the needle sitting at ~10 mph

odometer - not turning. the trip odometer has not worked since I've had the car (~4 years). The speedometer and odometer stopped working at the same time.

temp gauge - dead, sits at the bottom (past cold)

hand brake indicator light - always on.

The fuel gauge and tach work properly. Does anyone have any ideas what could have caused the above to fail? Do you think there is one cause or several? I haven't taken a stab at opening 'er up, I thought I'd wait until possibly hearing some wisdom from the Forum...

cheers!

[Napes]

(nt)

[Guest Anonymous]

Your speedo/odo need to be rebuilt. Nuthin' electrical about that! Try North Hollywood Speedometer. It's easy to pull the speedo out of the panel and send it.

Cheers,

Ray

[SteveJ]

Roughly, does anybody know what No Holly charges to rebuild the 02 speedos?

[jpcapoc]

Mine froze up recently, caused my cable to snap also. NH Speedo fixed it for $130. I didn't ask them to "rebuild" it. I works perfectly now. One day turnaround! They did a great job

[jpcapoc]

Mine froze up recently, caused my cable to snap also. NH Speedo fixed it for $130. I didn't ask them to "rebuild" it. I works perfectly now. One day turnaround! They did a great job

[esty]

the least expensive fix is to pick up a new, plug & play cluster...they're abundant on ebay for a fraction of the price of rebuilding the speedo

[SteveJ]

While it may be cheaper, unless it is a "new" speedo, then you don't really know the history or life expectancy of the replacement unit. Of course, as is true with anything, even a breand new one out of the box can fail while a 30 year old one could chug along for 100 years.

I may just look for a spare off the shelf with mileages close to mine and do the swap. (quick and easy) I could then send the original in for a rebuild so that if the replacement ever dies, I could just do another swap. If it never dies, then I can sell the rebuilt one on ebay after 20 years.