need help with gauge cluster [95 240sx se]

[youneverknow]

My gauge cluster isnt working. The clock works and the lights work thats about it. I think it has something to do when i swapped doors.tach,speedo,fuel,or temp needles dont move.Also does anyone know why when i turn ignition back from start to 1 (acesories)sp?..my car is still running. I think this is whats keeping my battery from staying charged.

[supreamS14]

Did you check your fuses?Check connections in the back?Try swaping in 1 in from a junk yard? You can take it back at most places.

[youneverknow]

yea checked the fused...the cluster worked one time when i went around a left ruen pretty sharp belts started squeelin and they worked till i stratend it back up
Modified by youneverknow at 11:07 AM 7/3/2008

[twistedsymphony]

it sounds like you have a nasty short somewhere...

actually, it sounds like your electrical is messed up something good on a whole.

What kind of stuff have you done to the car?

[youneverknow]

i have a rebuilt starter rebuilt alternator drivers side door new battery new radiator thats it

[twistedsymphony]

does your stereo work?does your drivers side mirror adjuster work? how about the driver side window?power locks?

turning hard left and having things start working is, to me, an indicator that something MAJOR is either loose or shorting out (or both)...

if it did indeed start after you replaced the door then that's the area I would start looking for shorts. If all of the door electronics (windows, mirrors, locks, speaker) work then I would move down into the kick panel area... there's a whole f-ton of stuff that can go wrong there though, since all of the interior electronics get routed through the fusebox right there.

[youneverknow]

stereo works, drivers side mirror works, dash lights come on, but needles dont work, doors lock except drivers side,but it did then it just quit.im stumped. i wired and soldered the door wires myself

[twistedsymphony]

well... pull it apart and test it again.

electrical problems are easy to fix (IMO at least) but they're impossible to track down just from a description... in general you need to pull it apart and test everything.

get a multi meter and test the wires coming in from the door, pull the gauge cluster out and test the connections between the cluster and the ECU.

do you have any other electrical problems?

[youneverknow]

just that my car wont stay charged after a day of sitting its dead. i dont have a multimeter? how much do they cost and can i get it at autozone? and were the positive wires run from the battery terminal to the starter there something that holds them all together and it has a place were a bolt can go through it but i dont know were it bolts to

[youneverknow]

bump... have a problem with the alternator not charging . does the guages not working have something to do with that? because i read that if the battery light doesnt flash then it wont charge?

[youneverknow]

figured out what my gauge and charging problem was....the 100a fuse

[youneverknow]

after i crank my car now and try and turn it off it stays on when on acc1 but cuts off on acc2. ignition swith problem?