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I am trying to remove my instrument panel and the little wires for the shift indicator a preventing me from doing so. Can someone give me instruction on how to remove this safely with out damaging them. Thank you.

 

There's only one wire for the auto shift indicator. It threads down and out through a hole in the bottom of the cluster and is clipped on to the rotating part of steering column housing, i.e. rotating when you shift through the A/T gears.

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When I reinstall I will take a pic of where it goes. It helped me see it by removing the lower plastic piece that goes along the bottom of the entire dash. I took my dummy gauge set and a 3/4 gauge set and cut a hole in the bottom of the 3/4 set for the indicator wire to go through. So now i have oil pressure, coolant temp, voltage gauge and shift indicator. More details in my build thread. 

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On 10/18/2015 at 5:30 PM, HOrnbrod said:

 

There's only one wire for the auto shift indicator. It threads down and out through a hole in the bottom of the cluster and is clipped on to the rotating part of steering column housing, i.e. rotating when you shift through the A/T gears.

Pulling this thread out of the grave.

 

HOrn, you've done a gauge cluster swap on your '92, haven't you?

 

I'm working on mine right now and I can't figure out how to remove the wire for the gear indicator. Any help?

 

Also, the '92 won't have a speedo cable plugged into the cluster, right? I'm trying to troubleshoot my non-operational speedometer while I'm swapping in full gauges.

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40 minutes ago, Zambeezy said:

HOrn, you've done a gauge cluster swap on your '92, haven't you?

 

Also, the '92 won't have a speedo cable plugged into the cluster, right? I'm trying to troubleshoot my non-operational speedometer while I'm swapping in full gauges.

 

Yes, years ago. As I remember when you drop the lower dash panel you can see the cable and how it clips to the rotating shroud on the column.

 

No speedo cable on the HOs. The most common cause of an inop speedo is a bad speed sensor in the AW4 tail extension. Or an open circuit from it to the speedo.

 

 

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