Can I use a 6 cyl gauge cluster in my 4 cyl truck?

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Re: Can I use a 6 cyl gauge cluster in my 4 cyl truck? [Re: HawkFanatic] #661168 11/01/05 03:07 AM

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FarmerTed

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I didnt know that it was possible to do this. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
I pulled a V6 cluster thinking it would work for my 22re, and now its just sitting in the basement.
How would someone with little electronic expierience change it over to a 4cyl?
thanks

Remove cluster from truck. Remove the lens cover. Take out the speedometer by removing the four screws from the backside of the cluster. Look in the cavity where the speedometer was. On the side of the tach, near the top, you will see a small cube that has a phillips head shaped screw adjustment. Plug the cluster back in the truck and start the engine. Turn the adjuster until it reads correctly. Reassemble and your done!

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Re: Can I use a 6 cyl gauge cluster in my 4 cyl truck? [Re: FarmerTed] #661169 11/01/05 03:17 PM

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N. KY

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Wheeler

Cool, I'll have to try it.

Maybe you guys would know whats wrong with the existing cluster:
As soon as the key is turned on, the tach needle immediately jumps to aprox 3400 rpms. When the truck is started, it raises about 750rpm at idle, and revs normally from there, other than being 3400 rpms too high. The needle corresponds correctly with the engine rpm, but +3400rpms. So as im cruising down the highway in 5th gear at 65mph, the tach is reading about 6500. Its as if "zero rpms" on the tach was somehow set to 3400.

Re: Can I use a 6 cyl gauge cluster in my 4 cyl truck? [Re: HawkFanatic] #661170 11/01/05 03:37 PM

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Littleton, CO

Red_Chili

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Could be anything. Resistors usually fail 'open'; semiconductors fail 'closed' or go toasty until they are 'open', letting out the magic smoke that makes them work.

All kidding aside, visual inspection might reveal a tell-tale brown spot on the circuit board.

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