I just picked up a White S14 and even with the weak KA its a fun car to drive!! On with the problems, first, I'm having problems with the cluster. The temp. gauge just randomly bounces while I'm driving.... When the car isn't running it reads perfectly fine but once the engine is running it just rests at the bottom and periodically bounces around... At idle it will read normal sometimes but if I touch the throttle it falls down and maybe bounce around a bit.... Second problem with the cluster is the tach climbs slower than the engine and the speedo will suddenly drop down and not work?? Sometimes if I hit (not real hard or anything lol) the cluster the speedo will just pop back up and start working....
Since I'm on a roll I'll keep going with the problems.... I dk what to do with the rear driver's side little window, the striping is coming off in places on the bottom of it.... The paint has started to "bubble" a bit in that area (which makes me sad but I need to stop the problem or at least slow it down) I can take some pics if anyone would like to see.... Sooo should I just try to get some kind of sealer or just see if I can get the whole strip replaced around the window??Next, the previous owner put in a J30 LSD diff that whines.... Its getting quite annoying and I'm guessing replacing it is a must at this point.... I've had the car a week now and trying to sort out the problems.... Outside of this **** I just need to replace the rear trunk lid (someone did a **** job patching the holes), need a new bin under the stereo and a shift boot.... Then the car would be a damn near perfect S14 lol.... Thanks for the help....
Just bought a 96 240sx and it has some problems....
Re: Just bought a 96 240sx and it has some problems.... (I FastR)
Sounds like you have a intermittent short in your cluster. Its not hard to pull it out, but a have no idea how to test it. As for the shift boot, and bin under the sterio welcome to the club. Mine had exactly the same thing. There is a link somewhere in here for someone making nice shift boots, or one from nissan will run about 60. Its not hard to change the diff and i would pull the pannels inside the car, where the rust is to check how much there is. Congrats on the purchase. Its a fun car.
Re: (I FastR)
actually mine did the same with the temp needle... it was just the wire that connects to the sensor was loose.. so i just changed the tip of the wire and and pluged it back and it worked fine.. incase u dont know where the wire is... its this one right here...this is a KA its just a orange valve cover..
Re: ((Q)240)
^^ same a me in my s13. hey I FastR, hit me up i live in lexington ky.