hey I just finished putting on my need clutch after the piolet bearing broke on me and now my speedometer isnt working? and i have no idea why. welcome to any suggestions.

 

if i remember correctly there is a speed sensor on the tranny, make sure its plugged in

edit: give me a minute and ill check the helms

 

ya i just say that when i was searching and i went to check it. does it come out bc it looks like the censor will need a wrench to get off. i also saw somewhere that if its dirty then it wont work either and to use the brake cleaner. is this true?

 

According to the helms manual it could be any one of these things:

an opening in the wire
a poor ground
a blown #24 fuse in the under dash fusebox
a short to ground

or the VSS (vehicle speed sensor) could be bad altogether, but i doubt it is since it was working (im assuming) before you worked on the transmission

 

ya it was working perfectly before. i looked more closely at it and it look like theres a little gap on between one of the wires. so im gonna fix that and see what happens.

 

yeah that may very well be the problem, good luck with it

 

well that didnt work. i looked in my fuse box and i didnt see a 24. i saw a 25 and 20?but where is 24?

 

what year is your integra?

 

k i check all the fuses and none were blown. where is the ground for the sensor???

 

its a 96

 

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ok, just making sure it wasnt a pre-94 or that would definitely change things since i have the 94+ integra helms

im not sure where the ground is, i would trace the wire coming off the sender and see if it leads to any grounds, other than that im not sure

im beginning to wonder if maybe it was something that you didnt fix properly on the inside when reattaching the transmission

 

theres not electrical stuff inside. all i did was replace the clutch, pressure plate, throw out bearing, and piolet bearing. what could cause my speedometer not to work from all that?

 

well how do you remove the vss? do i have to use a wrench to get it out?

 

ok i figured how to do that. but still noting work. any of you have any ideas? i didnt touch any of the wires that are inside the car so i know its now that. does anyone know how to check the vss to see if it works?

 

i just read that there might be a broken pin in the connector. what does that mean and what does it look like?

 

the small little pin that spins inside the connector could have fallen out when you removed the vss its called the drive link connector.....take the vss off and check it...

 

do any of your other gauges work? either way check your fuse box under your dash. make sure all of the connecters are tight.

 

you are probably grounding out somewhere causing it to blow. happened to me when i grounded out my primary o2 sensor

 

well i check the fuses and they are all fine. checked the vss and that little pin in the tip of it is still there. is that soppose to move? bc im not really sure. i also redid the wires that connect to the vss. and the gauges all work except the speedometer. thats why im pretty sure it has something to do with it. and how does the vss drive link connector accually work?

 

inside the transmission a gear on the outer housing of the differential spins the little vss gear which turns the drive link connector which sends a signal out to your speedo....

 

NOt to jack but if its the vss the speedo and the mileage will not work correct. neither of those work on my db8 and need to know what to replace cluster or vss

 

Bumping this thread back because I have the exact same problem as this guy. I swapped out the VSS and it's still not working properly.

 

i'm having the same problem too...i switched my speed sensor already too...hrmm....don't know what it could be anymore

 

Well, I don't even have the axles in the car but the speedo should still work right?

 

The VSS is spun from a gear on the diff/final drive. It should be spinning when in gear, even if there are no axles.
The VSS works on 12 volt pulses, you should see pulses on the signal wire from the VSS when the diff is spun. The ECU/Speedometer counts the pulses per second and calculates the speed.
It's not that hard to wire up completely from scratch. You have ground, 12v, and VSS (signal). The signal wire is split between the speedo and the ECU somewhere in the dash.

When splicing in and hacking the VSS, do it before the ECU/Speedometer split.