Gauge cluster replacement...no sure where to post.

[MikeP1969]

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Did you get a stock cluster, which I think is $250, or did you get a custom one?

I spent 300.

 

[ORVietVet]

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I spent 300.

Looks like you got the transmission temp gauge. No special plug in. Plug and play.

 

[MikeP1969]

Looks like you got the transmission temp gauge. No special plug in. Plug and play.

Is this what you mean?

 

[someotherguy]

Is this what you mean?

Yep, that's the extra gauge at the bottom left on your new cluster. The heavier models got them - 2500/3500, but also the Silverado SS's, too.



Richard

 

[ORVietVet]

Is this what you mean?

Yes, like @someotherguy said and the info page, the wiring is there already. That way when GM made the harnesses, they saved money making them instead of having two different lines for them. Once you plug it in, if the sensor is still good at the transmission, you will see transmission temp while driving.

So you got that carbon fiber look and the different color and the transmission temp gauge too.

 

[ORVietVet]

I've still got to take the cluster out of my wife's '06 SS and do all the steppers and bulbs. Everything's fine except the oil pressure gauge has decided to go into constant sweep mode, left to right, left to right, over and over. Every once in a while when it goes left it will give you the DING DING DING to alert you to the low oil pressure.

I replaced the sender about 4-5 years ago because it crapped out. I'm gonna kick myself if I do the gauges and find out the new GM sender went bad.

Richard

I may have asked this before but do not remember, did you use a Genuine GM sensor? The computers do not like aftermarket sensors. Did you get the oil pressure problem figured out?

 

[Cadillacmak]

Absolutely I will. My wife receives packages ALL the time. I told her that I was excited about a package coming for me tomorrow. First thing she asks is....how much? WTF?? I have no words.

I just tell my wife about how much money I saved by getting this, or "Look what they were giving out free at the grocery store", or "Look what I bought for my birthday". She knows its all BS and she just shakes her head.

 

[someotherguy]

I may have asked this before but do not remember, did you use a Genuine GM sensor? The computers do not like aftermarket sensors. Did you get the oil pressure problem figured out?

ACDelco 12677836

Richard

 

[ORVietVet]

ACDelco 12677836

Richard

For all I know, the sender/sensor on my 2004 Silverado is the OE Genuine GM but when I ran in to the oil pressure fluctuation problem, I bought a new Genuine GM part, in case. I did the Live Data testing and saw the voltages giving me good values and therefore, since I am lazy and a thousandaire, I ordered a new cluster from Digital Dash Solutions.

 

[MikeP1969]

Well, it was the stepper that went out on the temp gauge. The new cluster is amazing.

 

[ORVietVet]

Well, it was the stepper that went out on the temp gauge. The new cluster is amazing.

Kind of hard to pass up the looks, efficiency and lifetime warranty.

I have never, on two forums, seen them fail to deliver.

 

[MikeP1969]

Kind of hard to pass up the looks, efficiency and lifetime warranty.

I have never, on two forums, seen them fail to deliver.

I'm happy I did it and thanks to you for referring them

 

[someotherguy]

For all I know, the sender/sensor on my 2004 Silverado is the OE Genuine GM but when I ran in to the oil pressure fluctuation problem, I bought a new Genuine GM part, in case. I did the Live Data testing and saw the voltages giving me good values and therefore, since I am lazy and a thousandaire, I ordered a new cluster from Digital Dash Solutions.

I can't help but tinker with almost every damn thing so I just broke out the tools. I've got them for numerous other reasons already, so why not.









Etc., etc. in other words it just feels natural to me to whip out the soldering iron and go to town. That USA-made Weller unit has served me very well; bought it about 25 years ago when I lived in ATL .. I've got a really nice old Hakko solder/desolder station that I still need to repair the vacuum pump on it but never seem to get around to that.



Richard

 

[ORVietVet]

There are some things I can disassemble and rebuild. Used to do it for starters and alternators and engines and and and, but now days, it is R & R for me.

 

[someotherguy]

There are some things I can disassemble and rebuild. Used to do it for starters and alternators and engines and and and, but now days, it is R & R for me.

Oh, for sure.

On a lot of the electronics stuff, I'm tempted to give it a try. I have to credit my Pawpaw for starting me off with H.O.-scale model trains. He'd let me use his Craftsman soldering gun to make better connections for wires on my layout. My bed was a 4 poster in a small room where he'd closed in a back porch, and we maximized the space by building the layout on a full 4x8 plywood sheet with bracing underneath, hung from the ceiling with chains on eye bolts.

Richard

 

[Cadillacmak]

On a lot of the electronics stuff, I'm tempted to give it a try. I have to credit my Pawpaw for starting me off with H.O.-scale model trains. He'd let me use his Craftsman soldering gun to make better connections for wires on my layout. My bed was a 4 poster in a small room where he'd closed in a back porch, and we maximized the space by building the layout on a full 4x8 plywood sheet with bracing underneath, hung from the ceiling with chains on eye bolts.

I love HO scale train stuff, my grandfather and two uncles retired out of the Union Pacific. When I was a teenager I had a nice setup and took tiny motor winding wires across the HO power poles to power the houses and stuff. I still have mine and my oldest cousins stuff, need to set it back up someday.