93-97 Coolant Temperature Gauge Modification

[NLXTACY]

Woohoo!!! RavenTai, you are the man!
Just did this mod after Moser sent me the parts. Being as I had taken apart the dash a few times already this seemed like old hat. The whole thing took me maybe 20 mins start to finish. The gauge works great now. Its 53º outside right now here in SoCal so the temp gauge reads well below middle. When I do some freeway driving today I can check to see how it goes. One more word of caution, the small plastic indicator strips come off pretty easily. I didn't notice that one of them had slipped from its tiny white plastic posts and now I have a small wedge of light that shows through when I start the truck or when the headlights are on. I need to remedy this but I really dont want to do this yet again :P

[Trailbus]

Originally Posted by sandcruiser

i've got the parts ready to go.... but the won't let me break anything until I fix the stuff that's broken (like the passenger front window that doesn't work, or the sunroof that doesn't work, or the courtesy lights that don't work....)

Did you order the resistor sizes I posted up? I haven't tried them out (or eve aquired them yet) so you'll be the guinea pig. Hope they work or I'll feel bad.

I got side tracked with building a Sanden AC Compressor OBA setup.
Guess I oughta get them & get busy.

[Pinetop Cruiser]

Great work RT! Just finished this mod on a 96 LX450. I've accessed the instrument cluster a couple of times (added diff lock indicator bulbs following an OEM locker retrofit) and just had one more thing to add if people are having difficulty hooking up the wiring connectors to the back of the cluster-- if done carefully so as not to touch the face of the cluster, you may find there's much more room to maneuver the gauges and plug everything back up if you do it BEFORE re-attaching the front plastic bezel.
Again- thanks to all for all the time spent blazing the trail on these mods!
David

[sseaman]

any 91-92s yet?

[RavenTai]

Originally Posted by sseaman

any 91-92s yet?

There was some talk about it a few posts back but no definitive answers on how well it works.

[wearsabrowncoat]

Finally got it done, took me just over two hours but I spent lots of time cleaning stuff while I had it apart. Nice to see the needle move now. I was working out of a hotel room so didn't have all my tools like a vice or a clamp . I ended up securing the soldering iron in its cheap factory stand. This gave me two free hands, one to hold the board and the other to work with.