ok i got every wire hooked up right, got a ground, power, and lightsource. i even connected it to the blue wire in this pic. but why wont it work? it said hold down the top button to set 4,6,or 8 cylinders, i do...and nothing happens? it says press clear and recall at the same time to set the shift..i do..nothing happens?!

anyway, like i said i got all my wires hooked up what could be the problem? faulty tach? you guys said to hook it up the the blue wire, i did..nothing. i even hooked it up to the black one...nothing..?

edit:: heres the site:
http://www.deepstaged.net/auto...l.htm

 

I told you, do a friggin' SEARCH for the wiring diagram for your Civic cluster.

****...HERE!!

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">civic's left side grey plug (12 pins)

1. yel/wht fuel gauge
2. yel/blu vehicle speed sensor
3. grn/yel right turn
4. grn/blu left turn
5. wht/blu charge
6. yel/red oil pressure switch
7. NOT USED NOT USED
8. blu tach signal
9. NOT USED NOT USED
10. blk/yel power
11. red/blk power
12. red power

civic's right side grey plug (10 pins)

1. red/grn high beam indicator
2. grn/red e brake signal
3. NOT USED NOT USED
4. NOT USED NOT USED
5. grn/org check engine indicator
6. blk ground
7. yel/grn coolant temp
8. yel hot
9. grn trunk switch
10. blu/wht seat belt</TD></TR></TABLE>

TAP INTO #8 ON THE LEFT SIDE PLUG.

 

i had a lot of trouble installing my tach. my problem was a faulty ground and i swore up and down i had a good solid one.

this is what i did to eliminate all error:

0: cut the gas guzzling 6/8 cyl wires

1: double check for certain that you have a perfect ground

2: connect the red power wire straight to the battery. this way you know for certain you have power (you can wire it to a different source later, right now you are just checking to see if your tach is broken or not)

3: wire up the green tach signal wire to the blue distributer wire in your picture.

4: forget about the white wire for now

5: crank up your car and if it doesn't work send your tach back to autometer and they will give you a new one

6: as soon as i did these things, mine worked perfectly.

 

i did search...i got GSR cluster wiring!

 

GOOD GOD! that was harder than it should have been!!! i finally got it..it wasnt the blue wire that was wrong..it was the power!!!

 

lol.....

 

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okay, heres wusup a quick ghetto runthru, but i'll bet my last $1.32 that if u follow my directions, it'll work!
should be wires comin outa the tach like this
green- t splice this to the blue wire on the dist. (altho by hooking to the black dist wire, you may have fried the tach)

red- stick this in the slot for the interior light fuse, then stick the fuse back in to hold it there

black- run this wire DIRECTLY to the negative terminal on the battery, no where else

white- pull out the dimmer switch on the dash and t splice this to one wire, try the one to the right of the car, worked on a crx and a eh.