Hey guys, I'm looking for help diagnosing a little cluster problem I have. Shortly after I purchased my E30, the odometer broke. Everything else worked fine, Speedometer, Tach, Temp & Fuel Guage, and all the lights on the cluster. Only the odometer and trip meter failed. So I did a bit of searching around and realized the odometer gears quite commonly fail over time and especially over drastic weather changes.
So I ordered a new set of gears (Pain in the ass since its a European Motometer cluster and reads in KM/H
), and installed them. Upon taking apart the cluster and pulling the old gears out, one of the gears had 3 broken teeth in a row (plus other various teeth here and there). Replaced the gears, spun them, and everything looked like it should work great (in theory). Put the cluster back in the car, now the speedometer AND the odometer dont work.
This is the part that has me stumped. I checked all the fuses, used a volt-meter to check the power going to the cluster, everything seems fine. Only part I haven't checked is the speed sensor on the diff, as I dont believe the odds that in the time I was pulling the cluster, for some reason the sensor went bad on the diff.
so I believe my problem is in the cluster/speedo guage. I checked all the solder points, everything seems to be fine. Nothing seems broken on it. Can anybody help me with this?
I'll be swapping a friends cluster in about a week or so when he gets back into town just to be 100% sure its the cluster, but in the meantime is there anything I can do?
All tips and opinions are appreciated. TIA!
So I ordered a new set of gears (Pain in the ass since its a European Motometer cluster and reads in KM/H

This is the part that has me stumped. I checked all the fuses, used a volt-meter to check the power going to the cluster, everything seems fine. Only part I haven't checked is the speed sensor on the diff, as I dont believe the odds that in the time I was pulling the cluster, for some reason the sensor went bad on the diff.
so I believe my problem is in the cluster/speedo guage. I checked all the solder points, everything seems to be fine. Nothing seems broken on it. Can anybody help me with this?
I'll be swapping a friends cluster in about a week or so when he gets back into town just to be 100% sure its the cluster, but in the meantime is there anything I can do?
All tips and opinions are appreciated. TIA!
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