Hi there,
Just bought me a lovely FD all is good apart from the rev counter that seems to work intermittantly. Sometimes it works, sometimes i doesnt do anything at all, and sometimes it \'dances\' all over the show :3Confused .
Has anyone had any experience with anything like this? Is it likely to be easy to sort or cheap(ish)?
Any help appreiciated!
Thanks
Craig
Hiya mate, Had exactly the same problem, found a second hand guage from a very good friend, and its all sorted now! Not too bad to fit, but talk to someone before you start doing it. Ive seen whole instrument clusters thingys go for £140 ish, i think, but if you can find someone who has just the rev guage it should be cheaper
Andy
Would it be likely to be a loose connection? Or are you saying its a problem with the actual guage then?
Thanks for the response!
I remember someone going through this on the group, from what I can recal they had a fix and found it to be the capacitors on the back of the gauge.
Have a search I am sure it was on her or maybe FDUK.
Cheers
Yeah, remember that thread. thought about looking further into that, but easier just to find a second hand guage and drop it in. took me about 45 mins including swaping the uk and jap faces. worth what it cost me imho
I know what you mean I did the same, not very good with solder:)
Think I paid 60 for mine.
I do have a spare but it has no black face on it as it was removed for scanning in to make a custom set of dials.
If you want it make me an offer.
Cheers
I was the same, mine would stick approx 3.5K rpm. I bought a second hand one from Jimmys for about £60-70 and it was sorted.
Il have a bit of a potter around with it when i pick the car up on sat, and if i cant find an easy solution (i.e. loose connection) il get a new one.
How much would you accept for your spare Eddie? When u say theres no black face on it, do you just mean the facia bit with the revs printed on it?
Thanks for all the responses guys! :)
the face and needle are easy enough to change onto the new one, just be careful removing the needle, easy to break it! If you need any advice, you know where we are!
Thanks Andy, might well be on here at the weekend as i have never even owned an FD nevermind pulling the dials apart!
...Actually make that after the weekend as il be out playing :D:3gears-rh :driving :cool
when you do get round to doing it, give me a call on 07725522043 before you start, its a wierd feeling pulling the dash out for the first time!
Thats much appriciated, cheers Andy! Probably be within the next couple of weeks!
HI mate yes its just the dial face with the numbers on it which is missing.
Say 40 posted? is that Ok for you
Cheers
Hi Eddie, that sounds good! Like i said, i will have a tinker with it when i pick the car up, but if i cant sort it like that i will let you know asap.
So is it cool to have provisional \'dibs\' on that dial untill say sunday?
if you want mate ive got a rev counter that i was saving for spares if you have no joy. The only problem is i dont think its converted to mph
Silly question then but, do the rev counters need converting into mph? surely they just show the revs so it doesnt matter whether its mph or km?
Or am i being stupid and missing something?!
duhh sorry me not reading the post again!!!! no they don\'t need converting mate i for some reason was talking about a speedo but ive got a rev counter aswell:D
You are correct croig you dont have to convert the tacho to MPH its the speedo which is converted, a chip it attached to the back of the dials.
Hope you solve your problem anyway saves you some money that way.
CHeers
Ok, been driving her around a fair bit yesterday and about to go out now, however the rev counter seems to be working a lot of the time now but still has its moments!
I know nothing about what to do, but hope this might shed some light into what might be the cause? Dodgy guage, or loose wiring?!
as said before it will be the capasitors in the pcb of the tacho, it\'s becoming a common fault
Oh, i didnt realise you guys meant the fault was actually on the pcb in the guage!
How much do u want for your spare leedslad?
Itll get worse too, mine started off just now and then doing its own thing, but after a couple of months it never worked properly!
sorry for the late reply mate, i did actualy reply just not in this thread! lol :rollin how does £25 + postage and packing and yours as i wouldn\'t mind having ago at sorting one out. It was working when i bought it and ill slap it in my car quickly while the dash is off to check it again. let me know by thursday night and i\'ll post it on friday with every thing else.
Croig
Rip his hand of at that price mate my last one cost me 60 something, dont come up that often.
Leedslad let us know how you get on fixing it, I have a broken spare I may have a dable with now.
Cheers
Leedslad - SOLD!! I\'ll take it! If you email me your bank details il do a direct transfer and my address.
croigus@hotmail.com (croigus@hotmail.com)
Cheers for all the help guys!
will do ive done some reseach into parts and the capasitors are about £3 aslong as your comitent with a soldering iron you should be ok, if i was to make a service of repairing faulty items would i get :spank ?
Hmm follwing a thread about a service beening offered to other mrc users to convert the rear lights to round jobs, cheap service but he got his post removed due to other vendors maybe offering a similar service?.
I think he now offers the service on FDUK instead. MRC would not allow it even though he was only making a small fee. and wanted to fill his days.
so I reckon you will get :spank for it
I\'m not to bad with a soldering iron so can you tell me which caps I need, I will get to maplins to purchase them.
Cheers for your help, Ill offer my service 5 quid cheaper than you:D only joking just doing it for the sake really incase another one goes wrong on me.
as soon as i have done one mate i\'ll let you know
money sent Leedslad! :Thumbsup!
ive boxed it up today and will send it tomorrow mate along with lots and lots of bubble wrap! tested it today on my lunch break works fine up and down the rev range no problems :yes
its away should be with you monday.............may have gone slightly overboard with parcel tape, you\'ll see:Tongue1
Hehe, i\'ll be spending all week undoing it then by the sounds of things...
Leedslad - Recieved the rev counter 1st thing saturday morning!! Can\'t say i was expecting it that fast! So thanks a lot for the awsome response and mega fast turnaround time matey!
Will try and fit it asap - tho i am away this weekend comming, so will send you my one as soon as i can.
How long am i looking at to change the rev counter? A whole day or just a few hours?
a couple of hours if you have removed the dash before, if not it\'s a good half a day if NOTHING goes wrong and if something does kiss your day good bye lol. If you run into any trouble let me know and i\'ll try and help you have my number
Cheers Adam
how the install going mate?
Going to start the transplant tomorrow... hope the operation goes well and she pulls thru it!! :2Rolleyes
ok i seem to have lost your number Leedslad. Or anyone for that matter... having trouble removing this dash...
Any help much appriciated.
I have removed the steering pod, and the gear/handbrake cover, and loosened the actual gauges but that seems all i have done.
Like i said anyhelp if anyone is reading this please!!
progress... the gauge pod is out now...
Trying 2 remove the needle off of my old dial face and put it on my new rev counter... looks like it might break easily...
i have re read this thread and AndyRoi, you said it can be done but be careful - here it goes.. i hope i interpreted that correctly anyway...
needles and facias swapped sucessfully.
All plugged in and working fine!
Just a quick question before i put it all back properly - What should it idle at? Cause at the minute the rev counter is reading about 1750rpm on idle? That seems a bit high, should it not read about 1000rpm?
Any help appriciated :)
hey but that is abit high when warm its about 800 when cold about 1500 on mine anyway
Just finished up.:Thumbsup!
I had a long read through every post that had idle somewhere in it! So its now set to 900ish (possibly a nats whisker below 900) but that\'l do for me! As long as i know roughly what im at!
And il now be able to see when the turbos kick in! yay!
Thanks for everyones help, and in particular LeedsLad! Much thanks to you all!:god
I will post you my old rev counter during the week LeedsLad - could you post me your address to croigus@hotmail.com (croigus@hotmail.com)
Thanks again
Craig:Typing
Sorry i couldnt be of any help, been out of the country since 1st of april! Pleased you got it swapped ok, see what i meant about the needles being delicate?! :D Anything else you need. you know where we are!:Thumbsup!
Does anybody still have a s/h rev counter they don\'t need?
Was also wondering if you need to pull out the whole dash to get to the instrument cluster? I have some of the manuals from the USA in PDF form, but they don\'t make clear as to what you really have to do just to get the rev counter out...
thanks,
Adrian
Hi there Adrian,
To get the instrument section out, I found that I had to take off the steering cowl off, the bit beneath the steering cowl - where the air vent is for the drivers feet, and at the side of the dash - where the drivers side vent seals against the door.
When these three sections were off I found that the instrument cowl could pull forward with some moderate force (be carefull tho!) so you can reach in behind to where the instrument cluster is to undo it.
From here all I think all it was was a case of undoing 4 screws that held in the instruments and the whole lot came out - so you can get to which ever one you need.
Someone might even have an easier way than this!:Thumbs-up
Craig
Thanks for the advice Croig, I\'ll probably have a go at taking the instrument cowl off this weekend. I just hope I don\'t break all those little clips holding it in!
Quote from: croigHi there Adrian,
To get the instrument section out, I found that I had to take off the steering cowl off, the bit beneath the steering cowl - where the air vent is for the drivers feet, and at the side of the dash - where the drivers side vent seals against the door.
When these three sections were off I found that the instrument cowl could pull forward with some moderate force (be carefull tho!) so you can reach in behind to where the instrument cluster is to undo it.
From here all I think all it was was a case of undoing 4 screws that held in the instruments and the whole lot came out - so you can get to which ever one you need.
Someone might even have an easier way than this!:Thumbs-up
Craig
Hows the intruments going bud?
does any one have details on this repair of the capicator? mine is playing up and i feel handy! link, piks or details would be cool
cheers in advance
Anybody know where i can get a full gauge set.My rev counter starts at the bottom (6 o\'clock) not 7 o\'clock like my old fd did.