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    Lost gauges?!?

    So I stopped and bought gas last night. Everything was working fine. Get back in to take off, fire her up, and I have no speedo, tach, or console pod gauges. HELP?!

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    No gauges or no lights in the gauges?
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    Speedo/tach not reading, but lit.
    Volts/oil pressure not reading, no lights.
    But volts/oil pressure haven't lit up since I've owned the car

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    Ended up being a blown fuse. I feel lucky cause everything I seen with similar issues said the cluster was gonna need replaced

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    back again, now the fuse keeps blowing to the gauges. Only does it intermittently. May go weeks without blowing one, then blow them several times in a drive. Anyone else ever have this problem??

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    Check the harness in the engine compartment behind the drivers side cam cover. There is a long bolt that may be shorting out a wire in the harness.
    “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
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    "The only way to deal with the Islamic State - these blood thirsty, blood-drunken, terrorists -
    is to kill them, keep on killing them, until you kill the last one, then you kill his pet goat."

    Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters

    “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
    "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes, if you **** with me, I'll kill you all"
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    Any work done to the car recently?
    “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
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    "The only way to deal with the Islamic State - these blood thirsty, blood-drunken, terrorists -
    is to kill them, keep on killing them, until you kill the last one, then you kill his pet goat."

    Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters

    “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
    "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes, if you **** with me, I'll kill you all"
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    I'll check that, thanks. I haven't done any work on it lately, but it has had the engine replaced, so that's a possibility.
    On another forum someone mentioned that the vanity lights in the sun visors sometimes short out where the wires come out of the a pillar, I'm gonna look and see if those are working or not.

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    Possible dime stuck in the 12v lighter inside the console?

    It's the same harness
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    Quote Originally Posted by dustybo83 View Post
    I'll check that, thanks. I haven't done any work on it lately, but it has had the engine replaced, so that's a possibility.
    On another forum someone mentioned that the vanity lights in the sun visors sometimes short out where the wires come out of the a pillar, I'm gonna look and see if those are working or not.
    That was going to be my next suggestion.
    “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
    Ronald Regan

    "The only way to deal with the Islamic State - these blood thirsty, blood-drunken, terrorists -
    is to kill them, keep on killing them, until you kill the last one, then you kill his pet goat."

    Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters

    “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
    "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes, if you **** with me, I'll kill you all"
    General James Mattis




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    Okay, vanity lights and 12v lighter in console working with the blown fuse.
    Used my multi meter at the fuse location (#6) and it's reading a full 14 volts while idling. Is there a resistor somewhere that might have gone bad? Cause all the other fuses in the block are only reading around 1.5v

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    I would say you have a loose ground, or ground wire is not hooked up
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    Sorry to have to ask this, but are you reading across the fuse or between one end of the fuse and ground?
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    I stuck the meter prongs to wear the fuse would go into the block.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dustybo83 View Post
    I stuck the meter prongs to wear the fuse would go into the block.
    Put the ground lead to metal in the dash, then use the positive lead to measure voltage. Try a few places for ground so you know your meter is reading correctly
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