Anyone here work at a junk yard?

[HillbillyPyro]

The instrument cluster went bad in my truck. Gm one is 800 bucks! so I'm going to try and find a used one. I can get my old one rebuilt for 200 bucks but at that price even, i can go without. only the speedometer is acting up but its a stick and I can kind of tell how fast I'm going I never leave town with it.

 

[HillbillyPyro]

This is going about 50mph lol
no officer, I really don't know how fast I was going

 

[cgraunke]

You got the big turbo in there, huh?!

 

[Clint]

A junk in the trunk junk yard, or a regular junkyard?

 

[Ducttapegonewild]

Free advice, pay the $200 to get it rebuilt. I had a similar issue and swapped it out with someone else's problems. It cost me about $150 for the "new" one. I ended up getting the original one reworked.

 

[Bondo 440]

Pretty much a known issue on GM trucks. Replacing the cluster will resolve your issue but it may return. ( Like Duct says )

If you are handy with a soldering iron it is the stepper motor behind the needle. The part is like $15 on Amazon.

There's a guy out there (I haven't used) takes your cluster and will fix one guage at $39. Another guy replaces "all motors" like $65. I'm sure there's similar places out there. Google, you'll see.

There's a guy on ebay that has done 100s of them for $50. Option #2 below, ( ebay search "gm gauge repair)



http://www.chevyspeedo.com/ or http://www.gmgaugerepair.com/

 

[Bondo 440]

Fix it yourself or ship it out - $50 either way and problem over

 

[HillbillyPyro]

Thanks for all the info fellers!

 

[KcJason1]

Get a $50 GPS... They tell you your speed!... More accurate then any speedometer!

 

[HillbillyPyro]

I could download the speedo app on my phone!

 

[Bondo 440]

Get a $50 GPS... They tell you your speed!... More accurate then any speedometer!

That would get old pretty fast at least for me .

 

[JuzCallMeDee]

put the pedal to the floor and the speedometer will be right again

 

[HillbillyPyro]

Tops out at 97. Wish I could change that too

 

[Bondo 440]

.... LOL I guess you could get real crazy and take the cluster completely apart and integrate a Sun Speedometer into it.
like uh... well... me. LOL

 

[Rupe]

.... LOL I guess you could get real crazy and take the cluster completely apart and integrate a Sun Speedometer into it.
like uh... well... me. LOL

Wow...is that an 8-track tape player under your heater controls?

 

[Bondo 440]

It's an 82 but no, that's the cd/mp3/radio. It has the removable faceplate. Also there was 1000 watts in the trunk until last summer I gave it to my son when his amp quit.

 

[Jesse]

I would get yourself a scangauge, those things are awesome and read just about everything.