Help with 96 guage cluster swap

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat May 17, 2003 4:17 am

i recencently swapped my std 96 cluster to an upgraded 95 cluster they are both for l body and obdII, I changed the oil pressure sensor and all gauges work except for the tach. from what i can tell from the chilton's manual on 96 3100 the tach signal wire goung to the gauge cluster should be white, and either from the PCM of the DIS. the wire in my car is purple?
has anyone performed this swap on a 96 , maybe the tach is bad? or does anyone know f the tach signal to the dash is a digital sig, pulsing grnd, +, ect.... I tested for the above with a DVM and found nothing> Help

Canada · Post by **Canada** » Sat May 17, 2003 4:02 pm

Are you positive the donor car was OBD-II? Because mine came from a 96 and worked just fine.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat May 17, 2003 8:06 pm

ya, its definately obdII

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 22, 2003 12:43 am

Like Canada said it should work fine.

Are you near Montreal? If you are then you can come over and we can swap and see, it takes so little time.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 22, 2003 1:32 pm

See Chris, the mod of this setion, he started a topic about this sometime ago. If memory serves me correctly, something is different or didn't work right between a 95 and a 96 cluster.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 2:53 am

i get the mitchell on demand system for automotive repairs and the wiring diagram for the 95 corsica/beretta has a white wire from the ignition module on terminal C to the gauge cluster for tach signal. The 96 doesnt, im going to assume i need to add a wire from the ignition module terminal c to tach and see if the cluster works. ill keep you posted

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:51 pm

Moved

wht96 · Post by **wht96** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:08 pm

i did the same thing and really want to get this puppy to work. what was the update does anyone know where this was "moved" to

6r8ph1X · Post by **6r8ph1X** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:36 pm

If anyone hasn't figured it out already, if you have a 96 and you are upgrading to an older than 96 cluster, you need to take the wire from pin 9 on your ECM and pull it through the fire wall, into the engine compartment. Next, look for the 6 pin connector on your your coil packs. This is your ICM plug. Take the little rubber plug out of pin "C" on your ICM plug, and either get a pin out of a donor ICM plug from the junk yard or somewhere else and connect that wire you pulled out to the pin and put it into pin "C" of the ICM plug. This SHOULD be how you get the tach to work if it is not a 96 cluster. This is all explained in the Obd2 swap guide on bstuff.com. I just tried to simplify it, the original guide was alittle more confusing.

good luck!

steve3408 · Post by **steve3408** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:34 pm

Isnt 1995 actually a OBD I (sort of OBD I 1/2)?

Post by **3X00-Modified** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:43 pm

Yeah... whats your point though?

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