problems

[cjbecker]

I am having some problems with my cluster. The car is a 1984 318i.

I can not get the temp guage to work. As of now I do not have an si board in the car because it was completly shot. Do you have to have a si board for the temp guage to work? When i turn the car on, The guage does register that it is getting power, but that is it. It will not read any input from the sender. I checked the sender unit with a multi meter and it passes. Is it just my guage broke, or something else?

Also I have bad connection where the harness meets the cluster. I can play with this connection and turn my speedo on and off. Is it normal for this connection to go bad.

I knon this is a double post but the other post is in m10, and there is just not much traffic there.

[jlevie]

A working SI board is required for the temp gage to work. The flaky connection could be in the harness/plug, but the odds are that there are bad solder joints between the socket and the PCB.

[cjbecker]

Ok that makes since?

Next question, Is it possible to swap a newer e30 cluster in the place of an older one? would i just have to change the temp sender unit?

[cjbecker]

does anybody have an si board that they would like to sell?

[jlevie]

Next question, Is it possible to swap a newer e30 cluster in the place of an older one? would i just have to change the temp sender unit?

Yes. But you should get one from a 318.

[cjbecker]

Yes. But you should get one from a 318.

could you just put the sender in the same spot as it is in now. Just screws in, same threads and everything, and would that be the only thing i would have to change?