95shakinPF Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 (edited) is wrong with my speedometer? Ive read posts, worked on her, read posts, worked on her! My speedo,odometer,trip odometer and cruise dont work. While driving, the speedo needle climbs.The longer I drive, the higher the needle climbs! Until you park for a while, then it goes back to 0mph.One day after work I let my step son drive and I'll be damned if I dont notice the speedo working. I tell him to try the cruise and it WORKS! Odometer and all, working. Great, I think, its working now. Next day, no such luck, nothing works as usual. I figure its the VSS, so I pull it and both gears look fine. I volt check the sensor and the faster I turn it, the higher the a/c volts go(1.0-3.5etc.).From what Ive read this means the VSS is working properly. Right? Please gimme some ideas on what I could be overlooking. Im not sure what else can be wrong given the needle does move, I'm thinking the cluster isnt bad. Ive owned my pathy for 2mos now and that was the only time the speedo ever worked(not exactly an intermittent problem)! And no, the speedo didnt move when I pulled the VSS and spun the gear with it all still hooked up. Edited September 23, 2007 by 95shakinPF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonianbrat Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Just a shot in the dark here but I would guess cluster. I am having an intermitent problem with mine. When I go over really bumpy things at a slow rate like cattle guards my speedo and odometer will quit working for a while. Usually I can hit the dash and it comes back so I think it is my cluster. I have never checked to see if the cruise works when this happens though. Plus I have a R50 so I do not know how much difference there is in the cluster wiring etc. But I just thought I would give ya my .02. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unccpathfinder Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 the gage cluster connects on the LH side beneath that air vent where the cruise button is...maybe a loose connector as zonian said... you could have 2 diffent problems occuring though...when you hit the "cruise" button do you see the cruise light on the cluster? if yes then does your horn work? the reason I ask this is I had the copper button for the horn/cruise wear down and quit making contact so I shimmed it up and it was fixed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 Yes, when I turn the cruise on/off switch on, the green light lights up on the switch. The cruise doesnt work when you try the set/coast or res/accel, however the horn has always worked. The cruise light on the cluster only comes on if the cruise has been set. Ive only seen it the one time when the speedo started working. What you were referring to by copper part sounds like a contact kinda like a clockspring. Right? That should be fine cuz the horn has always worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unccpathfinder Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 (edited) yea...well my 95 the cruise wouldnt set and then it would and if you hit coast or cancel it wouldn't react and then about 5 months later the horn went out...lemmie see if I can dig up that post where I shimmed the ring down(I was cheap and didn't have time to run out and get new copper cylinders so I took the plate to them instead of them to the plate... http://npora.ipbhost.com//index.php?showto...1&hl=cruise its the last post Edited September 25, 2007 by unccpathfinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted September 25, 2007 Author Share Posted September 25, 2007 Gotcha! thanx a bunch, ill letcha know what I find out soon. Thanks again! I LOVE THIS SITE!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 (edited) Thanks for the advise, but all is fine there.I pulled the instrument cluster and traced all wires going into the dash as far as i could and nothing was loose and no corrosion anywhere! I guess the next step is the speedo itself is just bad! Anyone got a cluster that would fit I guess im gonna need it! Its got temp gauge and fuel gauge on left,speedo in center and tach on right. Oh, by the way, does anyones low fuel light come on when your fuel gets low? cuz mines got it on the cluster but it hasent ever come on and trust me ive run it pretty low last week!! Edited September 30, 2007 by 95shakinPF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrifyliak Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 My tachometer does the same thing that your speedo does (slowly rising the longer I drive) and a nissan tech guy in AZ told me it was a bad ground to the ecu, he said he sees them a lot. He said I could fix it myself, but I just never got around to it. But everything else in my dash works (except my dimmer control, still can't figure that one out.) so I don't know if your problem would be related to that or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 My tachometer does the same thing that your speedo does (slowly rising the longer I drive) and a nissan tech guy in AZ told me it was a bad ground to the ecu, he said he sees them a lot. He said I could fix it myself, but I just never got around to it. But everything else in my dash works (except my dimmer control, still can't figure that one out.) so I don't know if your problem would be related to that or not. Ive been working on different problems since Ive bought my pathy. Windows and door locks not working, speedo, and few other things and Im beginning to think ive got some kind of electrical gremlin! For instance today I find ive got notta bit of power going to my master switch in the drivers door. Im not a full blown mechanic, but shouldnt I have power going to the switch in order for it to be distributed to whatever(a door lock or window up or down direction)? I have double checked every pin on the harness connecting the master switch and no power going to any of the terminals. Im thinking of what u said about ground and am wondering if this could also be causing this problem as well! VERY CONFUSED!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unccpathfinder Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 (edited) did you check the connector under the dash? Edited October 1, 2007 by unccpathfinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 (edited) did you check the connector under the dash? yep! everythings connnected and clean! I've done quite a bit of research on the VSS and the readings I get while manually spinning it is above .5 ac volts. The faster I spin it the higher it gets...is this still okay? Or should it max out at .5? I'd really hate to purchase a new VSS and find out that wasn't the problem... Edited October 21, 2007 by 95shakinPF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted October 21, 2007 Author Share Posted October 21, 2007 Well I have been really busy fixing my 95XE and I'm almost done! Almost! I just pulled code 14 off of the ECU in mode 3 and double checked the VSS in mode 4 and no luck! does anyone have a VSS laying around(yeah rite!) they can part with? I'm not sure which years will interchange or if a 2WD and 4WD have the same VSS. Mine is a 1995 XE auto tranny 2WD. I have pulled the VSS and spun it with a volt meter attached and it rises in a/c voltage, so I thought it was good. The gear looks great so I know thats not the problem. I've done quite a bit of research on the VSS and the readings I get while manually spinning it is above .5 ac volts. The faster I spin it the higher it gets...is this still okay? Or should it max out at .5? I'd really hate to purchase a new VSS and find out that wasn't the problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyL Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Mine Buggers up every now and then too. I give it ten minutes and it's back to normal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 Well I wish that were true! Its been broke since I've bought it! Only worked maybe one hour in the 3mos I've had it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95shakinPF Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 OK, I was reading a post the other day when I got pulled off the puter to go do something and lost my place! Anyway, It included a link to some geo-something site that would not pull up(like the site was down?). The link was info on how to unplug the speedometer and test it somehow to rule out the speedo head being bad. Since it would not pull up I couldnt read the info and now I cant find that post either. Question-does anyone have any idea how to bypass a VSS to make the speedometer move,so that I may rule it as being good or bad? AARON? SCOTT? K9SAR? ANYONE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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