I've just fitted my clocks, dash pods ect. after getting them back from Graham (Groover-Excellent job he's done and highly recommended). This is the first time these clocks have been fitted in my car as i removed the jap ones for UK, as the connections were different on the back i just swapped all the dials from the UK set into the jap cluster and i also removed the de-limiter that was fitted.

All lights work as they should, except the speedo go's up to 20mph when i turn the ignition key and i know this shoulldn't happen as there is no engine in the car lol.

What could be causing this? Is it because i've removed the de-limiter or could it be the clocks i bought are faulty?

Many thanks.

did you remove the needles to put the dials on ?

Sounds like a dry joint on the speedo unit board - take it back out and reflow all the soldered joints (don't bother looking for dry joints, just reflow them ALL)

did you remove the needles to put the dials on ?

 

No the needles were not touched, it wasn't the dial faces i changed it was the complete unit and i was very careful not to touch the needles.

Sounds like a dry joint on the speedo unit board - take it back out and reflow all the soldered joints (don't bother looking for dry joints, just reflow them ALL)

 

Cheers Andy, do you mean reflow the solder on the dial as in the pic?

Thats the ones :)

Thats the ones :)

 

I don't suppose it would do any harm if i reflowed all the soldered joints on all the dials while their off or should i just stick to the faulty one?

If its not broke and all that.

Doesn't hurt at all as long as you don't cook the joints to death lol. Only other dial I've ever known with problems from dry joints is the rev counter but thats not to say there won't be a first time lol

 

Cheers,

 

Andy