Date:         Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:08:27 -0400
Reply-To:     Don in North Carolina <vanagondon@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don in North Carolina <vanagondon@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: I broke my tach
Comments: To: John Reddick <SVYOLO@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2005072422371059@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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On 7/24/05, John Reddick <SVYOLO@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was fixing my odometer (again) and must have roughed up one of the wires
> that runs the tach as it no longer functions.  The other gauges on the
> tach face function normally.  The big white connector still looks good and
> all the connections to it look undamaged.  Anybody got any ideas???  I
> only pulled the instrument cluster, no other part of the van was touched.
> 
> John
> 87 Westy SVX

John,

Before going too crazy, try unplugging your main connector plug on the
bottom lower right side of the instrument cluster, and replugging it
in.  The connection to the blue film is none too good at the best of
times, and I have found just removing / replacing the plug to be a
cure for many sudden "ills" in the cluster.

Best of all, it's free to try (though it's a pain to get to with the
cluster in place, I have done it...).

-- 
Don in Reidsville, NC
1986 Kawasaki Concours
1988 Vanagon GL (Sylvia)
"Why do they call it a fixed income, if mine is always broke?"