Hey all. So recently my speedo started dropping to 0 at random and I had 3 lights burned out in the gauge cluster. Decided to do all of it at once and while at it, wanted to match all the other button-components with red LED's (4wd cluster, light cluster, cargo/fog buttons, door buttons on both panels, and heater control). I ran into a few problems - and I'm updating as I got some of the other's taken care of.
1) All Stepper motors fired right up except the Speedo. It slowly walked up to 120mph, and then stayed there. Swapped the motor out with another one (all X27 168's) and it did the same thing. Any ideas here? I've looked at every joint around my solders and it doesn't look like I'm crossing over one, and I don't see any burn-out areas. I'm at a loss here and don't want to keep doing this over and over again.
2) when getting all the button things out - I noticed I couldn't get to the back of the circuit board in the 4wd housing. I could get it all apart but it looks like the pins are driving through the backing...and the LED's actually get soldered in from behind. Any idea how to get this open without breaking it? Am I missing something or do I just need to worry less and give it a tug?
1) All Stepper motors fired right up except the Speedo. It slowly walked up to 120mph, and then stayed there. Swapped the motor out with another one (all X27 168's) and it did the same thing. Any ideas here? I've looked at every joint around my solders and it doesn't look like I'm crossing over one, and I don't see any burn-out areas. I'm at a loss here and don't want to keep doing this over and over again.
2) when getting all the button things out - I noticed I couldn't get to the back of the circuit board in the 4wd housing. I could get it all apart but it looks like the pins are driving through the backing...and the LED's actually get soldered in from behind. Any idea how to get this open without breaking it? Am I missing something or do I just need to worry less and give it a tug?
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