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Old Apr 6, 2009 | 08:02 PM
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i have a 89 civic hatch and i put a 90-91 si cluster in i went over the wiring about 10 times now it was working perfectly fine and then when i was driving i shifted into 3rd at the rev limiter and my fuse blew for my turn signals now my turnsignals ,coolant gauge ,fuel gauge dont work or any of the cluster functions and when i put a new fuse in as soon as i turn the key on the fuse blows instintly does anyone know what could be making this happen?
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Old Apr 6, 2009 | 08:07 PM
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a short somewhere, re check all your wiring, basically a ground is grounding out to a power source.
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Old Apr 7, 2009 | 03:01 PM
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i rechecked my wiring again and everything is in the right spot nothing is touching so its not at the cluster when i pulled the fuse i checked witch side had power. the top part had power and the bottom did not
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Old Apr 8, 2009 | 06:56 AM
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does anyone have any ideas this is my daily driver and i get out of work at night please help
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Old Apr 9, 2009 | 08:11 PM
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i have the tachometer hooked right up to the blue wire off the distributer do u think that i could be blowing fuse's because of this?
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Old Apr 10, 2009 | 06:58 PM
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can anyone help me please do u think that my cluster is getting to much power from the distributer and not getting a good enough ground?
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Old Apr 10, 2009 | 07:18 PM
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right size fuse? U could disconnect the tach wire and see if that is it or not. does sound like a short or something though.
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Old Apr 13, 2009 | 07:32 AM
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ok today i took the tach wire out i put a new fuse in and it was working for about a half hour and then the fuse popped out of no where i didnt touch anything and it just went
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Old Apr 13, 2009 | 09:03 AM
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I FIXED IT There Was a yellow wire that went into 2 wires and it didnt have any electrical tape on it and it was grounding out i tapped it up and everything works mint now
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