Nismo Dash Not Working Properly

[levizzle]

I have a 260km nismo dash for my R32. Only problem is tacho doesnt work, other gauges seem to work ok. Looking at the circuit on the back, the plug behind the tacho doesnt seem to copy the same positions as the the standard dash circuit.

Does anyone know if there are different series of nismo dash depending on the year of the car, my car is from 89-90 so is the nismo dash for a later model r32?

Could I swap the gauge assemblies for each gauge out of the nismo set and put them inside the casing of the standard one, or would this not work out since the speedo may have a different mechanism to get to 260km?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[levizzle]

Actually now that I think about, cant you buy the nismo gauges as just the assemblies without the casing and then you put it in your standard gauge casing. If this is true then would be able to swap just the assemblies. Has anyone done this or know how to do it? Does anyone know what I am going on about?

[heller44]

Look on the back of each cluster.. You should see a marking near one of the connector holes with TAM written..

On the old one I reckon it is on the left side connector (if you are looking at the circuit board) 3rd pin from the top on the rhs.. On the new one it may be middle connector 4th pin from the top lhs. Just chase the pin back and make sure it is in the right place. This is only what I had to do on my car.. gtst may be different.

This was the case with my '89 gts4 cluster replaced with a later gtr cluster. There were also a number of other things wrong as well, check all the idiot lights are working, indicator lights are correct, hicas still works etc.. I had to change quite a few pins over.

Edited December 26, 2009 by heller44

[levizzle]

Look on the back of each cluster.. You should see a marking near one of the connector holes with TAM written..

On the old one I reckon it is on the left side connector (if you are looking at the circuit board) 3rd pin from the top on the rhs.. On the new one it may be middle connector 4th pin from the top lhs. Just chase the pin back and make sure it is in the right place. This is only what I had to do on my car.. gtst may be different.

This was the case with my '89 gts4 cluster replaced with a later gtr cluster. There were also a number of other things wrong as well, check all the idiot lights are working, indicator lights are correct, hicas still works etc.. I had to change quite a few pins over.

Yeah I see TAM on the old one, and TM on the nismo one but it is one pin lower. Looking at the other plugs the middle plug seems to have a few differences too.

How do u change the pin positions?

[heller44]

If you look at the connector, there is like a latch that holds the row of contacts in the housing.. unclip it and you can remove the pin and transfer the location. I'm going from memory here as it was a couple of years ago.. obvious when you have good look at it.

What is the original location for on the other dash? make sure that you aren't going to short anything out..

[levizzle]

So you have to move the pins in the plug coming from the car so they match the dash. Thanks I will have a look. Why cant they just match up.