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Hey guys,

After months of intermittent flickering/bouncing of my tacho needle....its seems as though my tacho has finally had enough and wont run beyond 2000rpm anymore!

I have read the DIY guide by 'pushead' on removing the cluster and it seems to be fair easy....btw...nice guide (alot of detail)....cheers :P

I still have a few questions though -

1) The guide finishes with the cluster coming out of the dash, but still connected....what happens next? Are the wires running to the cluster - soldered? OR do they use connectors?

2) When replacing the cluster, does the new cluster need calibration? How do u go about this calibration proceedure?

3) Does anyone know where i can buy a 'new' cluster? OR can u only buy '2nd hand' ones?

4) Do you know of any good instrumentation experts where i can get the work done? How much roughly am i looking at? (Im not sure if i will do the work myself or not? Depends on how much stuffing around is involved and how cheap it is to simply get someone to do it for me.)

Cheers, :)

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1. Theres 3 plugs on the back of the cluster just unplug them and out it comes

2. Should'nt have to recalibrate any thing...would be cheaper just to replace tacho

3. Look in for sale section

4. Premier instruments or somone like that maybe look in the yellow pages

i would pull the cluster out its very easy and check that the needle shaft as not poped out before buying a new cluster or tacho

If you pull the cluster apart its possible to find whats wrong with it.

There could be a few 'dry' connections where the female connector is connected to the circuit board. you can tell this by looking at them and if the solder looks as if it has been broken.

This happened a to my pulsar when I had it. Just had re-solder those connections and bob's your aunty.

You might have a different problem though.

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