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Old 11-21-12, 01:39 PM
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Default My needle fell off my cluster

I shipped my cluster across town and back to see if the needle fell off since I hear about it a lot. Gas needle usually. No idea why it's always the gas needle........ Anyway, MOST of you have screwed with your cluster in some way and pretty much everyone has seen the billions of pictures on here about how the needles just set on the contacts so it's easy for them to fall off.

As a rational human being, should I:

(a) become furious and start screaming about it to anyone that will listen.

(b) put it back on in the 2 minutes it takes like I would have to do anyway since it must be done to calibrate it once it has been removed from the car.......... as we know.

(c) Blame it on someone else and refuse to accept that it's no big deal and just stick it back on.

If you chose A and C and ignored B, you can guess I probably decided to be irrational and instantly go into bulldog mode and make my first words "I'm SO UPSET!" instead of being sensible and simply (and calmly) solving the issue.

3 choices, you can choose more than one. WWYD?
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Old 11-21-12, 02:29 PM
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I'd go with option A & C at first then go with B and feel like a hero .
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I pick A and C but you also need to throw stuff around. Don't forget to record it so that you can show people what happens if they get on your bad side
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I like option A the most. I'd probably end up just putting it back in assuming I could get those stupid plugs on the back of the cluster to unhook.
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Originally Posted by Kira X
assuming I could get those stupid plugs on the back of the cluster to unhook.
I cut my tabs OFF the plug in 2002................ they haven't bothered me since.

Thanksgiving trolling here, hope everyone has a good turkey day...........
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Originally Posted by O. L. T.
(a) become furious and start screaming about it to anyone that will listen.
Your not Mark Levin....

(b) put it back on in the 2 minutes it takes like I would have to do anyway since it must be done to calibrate it once it has been removed from the car.......... as we know.
Your not Einstein...

(c) Blame it on someone else and refuse to accept that it was your fault.
Your not Obama.

JK I would attempt B, than do A, and than do C.
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Originally Posted by O. L. T.
Thanksgiving trolling here, hope everyone has a good turkey day...........
...and pie... dont forget pie.

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Never seen one of those fall off before.

What do you do to re-calibrate it if that happens?

Side question, is there a way to recalibrate an sc400 tachometer that reads like 500 rpm lower than engine speed?
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Not if it is because of a tach swap from a 300 to a 400. They will read low on high range as well, not just idle.

I'm done trolling. I was having some TG fun.

Happy Turkey.......
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