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I found many places where they did not take the passenger side of the dash lose and just lifted the drivers side up and pulled the control unit out. I went with taking the entire top of the dash. I did not want to mess up the dash pad, and I'm gald I did it this way.
From there I used the intructions provided by fcpgroton on how to remove the entire unit from the dash and how to take it apart to get the oddometer gear:
When I put everything back together the oddometer worked fine. But here are things I screwed up which will cause me to do the whole thing over again.
1. When pulling the cluster unit out of the dash I broke the tabs where the unit clips onto. Now the unit rattles like crazy inside the dash. I am going to figure out some makeshift way to secure the unit. I will follow up with what I did.
2. Markor take a picture of where you gauges are set before taking the unit apart. The directions do not tell you that you need to take the needles off all your gauges. When I started prying it apart like taking the lid off a can of paint the needle from the turbo gauge flew off. When I put it back on, I set it way to the left, well it should have been set in the middle. So now my turbo guauge is weird. I also got the tach off a little along with the gas guage. Speedometer looks to be right.
3. I had trouble getting the screws that go into the window pilar back in on the side of the dash pad. Ijust could not get the holes to line up. I probably spent more than an hour with just those two screws.
Hope this helps somebody do this job. It was really not that bad. It took me about four to five hours, and I work very slow and it was cold out, so I had to come inside a couple times. Once the unit is out of the dash, you get to work insidethe warm house.
Good Luck!
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I installed some aftermarket guage faces in my Typhoon a few years ago, which required removing the whole cluster. Not a fun job, and I definitely agree, take your time and go slow! Luckily in my project, I didn't have to mess with removing the needles.
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T Jay
-99 Jimmy SLT
-97 850 GLT For Sale
-97 Legacy GT
Good deal, the odometer's been broken on mine for 2 and a half years which brings up a question. Would the computer possibly keep track of the mileage after the odometer breaks or would it not?
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1996 Volvo 850 R
1984 300ZX 50th AE
Yes the computer keeps track of it.
I had mine pulled then reset the digital trip in my info center.
Then drove it home and added the trip home to what was pulled out of the computer then changed the milage when I replaced the gear.
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1987 Ford mustang LX Coupe 5.0
1995 Yellow T5-RM yes Manual
1996 850 turbo
Cool...today i removed mu cluster unit out of the dash to repair my broke odometer, and after one hour of work i discovered that my little gear was not broken ![:@] Someone before me (the previous owner maybe) made a mistake: there is a white little plug with 4 pins,near the motor - two pins was accidentaly put (bended) in ONE hole ! Maybe this plug wasn`t plugged corectly when the dial face was put back in place...I`m waiting to put back my cluster and drive a little - maybe all will be fine. What a stupid person...[>:]
My Odometer and Tachomter (tells you how many miles you have driven) both STOPPED at the same time 2 weeks ago. I didn't notice it right away.
Seriously, how difficult from 1-10 is it for someone who is not a true machanic OR a husband with low patience when things don't go back together as easy as they come out when we are working on the dash to pull it out? OR...coul something else be wrong since both stopped at the exact same time. I can push the one back to zero and it looks like it will start rolling, but then stops.
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How to Repair a Broken Oddometer
