Sup guys,

I just did the cluster swap and put an EX cluster with tach in my 92 civic DX. If you'd like to preserve your old mileage on the new cluster, the easiest way would be to swap speedometers. Here's a simple procedure of doing just that:

1. Remove the rubber cap from the reset lever by pulling on it with caution.


On each side, top and bottom, of the cluster you will see 3 clips.

2. Start with top. With one hand, figure a way to pull on the glass window while pushing on the white tab at the same time. See red circles in picture below. I did it by pushing the white tab with my index finger and with the rest of the fingers I pulled/held onto the glass housing. While applying pressure between the two housings, press and push on the clips. See green arrows in picture below. It would be best if you unclip the clips one by one starting on the side you're applying pressure between the housings.


3. Turn over so you're looking at bottom portion of cluster. Do the same thing on this side as you did for the top portion.


4. Once you have unclipped the clips on both sides, separate the glass housing from the rest of the cluster carefully. Before pulling, make sure that none of the clips are still clipped against the clip-bridges (hah!)

5. Next, remove the 3 screws on the back of the cluster that are holding the speedometer. Once you remove those, you can separate the speedometer from the cluster.


6. Repeat steps 1-5 with the second cluster you have.

7. Swap speedometers between clusters and reverse the steps 1-5 to put both clusters together with the swapped speedometers.

Very easy!

Let me just say that instead of swapping speedometers you can also set the mileage by messing with the mileage gears on the speedometer. This is a more messy method and requires disassembling the speedometer. I saw a write up on how to do it already so I won't go over that.

Another way to do it if the mileage on the speedometer you want to change is less than what you want to make it (say you've got a 50K miles speedo and you want to make it 100K miles) then you can attach a moving electric motor to the gear on the cluster and it will change the miles one by one. It can be done pretty fast with a high RPM electric motor.

That's it folks... have fun!

Critisism, suggestions, ideas, comments -- always welcome!


Modified by civic_driver at 3:53 AM 11/19/2005

 

Good write up, but no pics!

 

put the pics up!

 

good stuff

 

thank you!

 

good write up

 

Finally!!! How come I never thought of doing this writeup with all the clusters I've had?

BTW, this will work for EJ and DC/DB clusters as well.

 

 

good write up, thanks

 

**** I already gave away my original one