this is what my tach looks like now after i got it back from the shop who repared it after it was broken into. They totaly redid the steering column and installed an alarm, and im guessing by the wipe marks on the face of the TACH backing, they cleaned up the dash area. And while doing this they somehow broke my tack, the picture below is how it looks now, and when it starts goes to 0. and you can see wipe marks if u look closely enough at the photo where im guessing they cleaned up and messed with the needle with a rag or something..

NOw the reason the clear pastic piece that covers the guages is missing is because i had to take off the bezel infront of the guages a whlie back and broke the clear plastic piece, so i left it off and was goign to goto the junk yard and pick up another one, so all teh guage faces are exposed.

is there anyway to fix this? can i just get a new tach motor or do i need a whole new guage cluster? any clues?
And im not going bring it back to the place to make them fix it because they did such a bad job on many other things i know they will just screw it up worse, but whatever it does cost me i think im goign to give them the bill...

 

What does it do when the car is on? Does it behave normally or is it way off?
I dont know for sure how to fix that, but you may be able to just move the needle by hand back to where it should be. Youve probably already tried that, but I would try moving clockwise and counter clockwise to see if i can get it back where it should be.

 

the total movement of the tach needle is about half an inch, so it just basicaly doesn't work at all..

 

so is there any way to replace the tach without replacing the whole guage cluster?? maybe just replace the motor or something? if not how much will THEY have to pay for a new guage cluster?

 

plz help!! which wires goto the tach in the engine compartment?

 

It's not a wiring problem, the needle is simply on the wrong side of the stop pin. Take off the clear plastic bezel and look at it closely, it will be obvious what you need to do. It's a 5-minute fix, tops, from start to finish.

 

heres a video of what its doing, the engine was reving to abut 4500RPMS when i did this

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/3e9bb...h1Z18AMU0ULKg7