I'm having some difficulty with my tachometer on my 2000 honda accord coupe lx V6. I guess I have to give the history. Behind the gauge cluster, I wired piaa fog lamps (which are not in use because the bulbs are done) and reverse indiglo gauges. I am actually using reverse new reverse indiglo gauges with old regular indiglo wiring. I also had to use some patch wiring. Also, afer installing the gauges, I had to pull the needles out a little.

Now here's the problem. The tachometer is idling at a little over 2000 rpm when it should idle at around 666 rpm. Also, the needle seems to get "stuck" or lagg even when I accelerate fast or put the car in neutral while driving. The needle isn't stuck on the gauge faces. So this leads me to two conclusions...

1) The tachometer gauge is busted because I pulled the needle out too much. I never actually pulled it off completely but I did pull it out more than the other needles.

2) The wiring behind the gauge cluster (to which everything is conected including the gauge cluster) is messing up my tach. I don't really understand if it's possible for bad wiring (ie. not enough current/voltage, or bad connections) to alter but not stop a tach from working. I figure either the wiring is good and everything works fine or the wiring is bad and it completely doesn't work.

Anyones 2 cents would be nice considering I don't wanna spend around $300 for a new gauge cluster. Especially if I don't even know that this is the actual problem. Also, sorry for the novel I wrote.

 

you know the needles are spring loaded right??
if you pull it out or put it far back enough it will never work right.
i have a friend almost busted his gauge when he installing the indiglo.
luckily that was not the case, i remove the indiglo face and his gauge are fine.

 

I knew they were spring loaded but I figured that if I didn't pull them out completely I would be fine. Well anyways, it seems that this may be the problem. So basically if I did pull it too far out and the spring mechanism is now innaccurate, then the only thing I can do is by a new gauge cluster?

When you said you thought your friend busted his, did you mean that his needles were also getting stuck and not idleing correctly because he pulled it out to much?

Does anyone else have any other ideas?