Stepper motor in tach?

[jyount]

I have a few questions actually. First, our tach sticks intermittently like the speedo and tachs do on these things. I bought one of the updated style stepper motors off ebay, when it comes I plan to put it in. Have any of you done this?

Going to Florida this summer with a bunch of family members. I am driving the Yukon, I got the interior spiffed up in this thing where it will be a swell ride except, half of the lights are out in the radio, 3 of the 4 steering wheel control button lights are out, and the light on the headlight switch on the side for the fog lights and dimmer are out. ALL of these work A OK, the lights are just out. I am gonna solder the lights in the radio before I go, want to do the same for the steering wheel button lights, and the other too, all the other lights the same lights as the radio? I hate to pull it apart without having new bulbs to replace them... I don't want to replace the switches, the wheel switches are probably 115 or more bucks worth of switches, the headlight switch is who knows how much, and the radio is probably 400 bucks or more, it is a bose, so.... I do not want an aftermarket radio to fix this, that axes the wheel controls, and the oem one is good in this thing. I just want to solder new lights in. I have a low wattage pencil tip solder gun, can desolder and solder, so not worried about doing it really, just need part numbers I guess.

[jyount]

For anyone who cares, just replaced the tach stepper motor and the fog lights. One of them was missing so I replaced the pair so they matched. The cluster comes out then apart. Gotta Desolder the old stepper and solder in the new one so its not hard, just not a job for someone who doesn't know what they are doing. The hardest part was getting the stupid clips apart of the cluster. The motor was no big deal. Just make sure you turn the stepper motors to zero and put the needles back at zero so they are accurate...

[maxwedge]

Thanks for the post back, good info.

[jyount]

Also might note that the motor + shipping was like 7 dollars and some change. To send the cluster off and have it repaired with someone else taking it out and putting it back in it cost around 300 dollars usually so I save something around 295!

[wayaboveme]

Nice Savings! Appreciate the post. Every little bit of info helps.

Originally Posted by jyount

Also might note that the motor + shipping was like 7 dollars and some change. To send the cluster off and have it repaired with someone else taking it out and putting it back in it cost around 300 dollars usually so I save something around 295!