The engine works fine driving without the cluster. It’s only the gauges and power windows and radio basically.
@zakglove65367 ай бұрын
just put some dielectric grease on the connector its obviously just a connection problem. Ford recommends it on every electrical connector in the Truck especially if you live somewhere with high humidity. It's especially important on the ficm connections because they tend to attract humidity because of the heat cycles.
@kylebachman44775 ай бұрын
That is not the case at all. It is several things. One is the blue connector pins on the board break the surrounding solder and cause a bad connection. The big one is on the cluster itself. Being the 8 pin battery saver marked 1002. This also either loses solder connection or most of the time goes bad. These companies take the time and carefully go through the entire board resoldering connections and updating and upgrading the battery saver and several other known problems. Dielectric grease ain't fixing it at all
@zakglove65365 ай бұрын
@@kylebachman4477 The pins aren't the best material like gold plating and they suffer from corrosion which causes high resistance which causes excess heat which causes all the issues you just described.
@alvinkmiec93804 жыл бұрын
I had the same problem with my 03. I try to get a hold of the guys you used to work on my but they would never call me back. So I sent it to a company in Florida. I got it back and still nothing worked. I contacted them and sent it back. They email me a video of it working good on their test. I installed it today and still not working. They said I have other problems with my wiring. I checked the shift arm for bad spots in the wiring and even took it apart to check the wires inside and seen none. About ready to pull my hair out trying to find the problem.
@life-ingwithkenandphyllis90143 жыл бұрын
I hope you have it figured out by now Alvin. There were a few other causes I saw in searching for an answer to my problem. One was something about the dome light, can't remember exactly what but I think there are some other videos on that. The other was a voltage problem. I checked mine old school with a multimeter at the battery terminals, but I remember watching another video on how problems with the voltage regulator can knock out your instrument cluster. Hope it helps man, no bigger stress than a messed up truck!
@Josehernandez-bv9bj3 жыл бұрын
Gracias
@alvinkmiec93803 жыл бұрын
@@life-ingwithkenandphyllis9014 I did finally found the problem for one gage. It was a wiring problem behind the cluster. I still don't have a RPM gage not working. I heard the 2003 7.3 gets it's signal from the cam sensor. The cam sensor works because my truck starts unless it some part of the cam sensor it gets it's sensor from. I use this truck mostly as a ranch truck so it really doesn't matter if it works or not. Thanks for the reply back.
@russellhelms54363 ай бұрын
I have a bulb burned out on my 2006 Ford F-250. Couldn’t find where the Bulbs are located. Where are the bulbs located at on these things
@fdubovik4040Ай бұрын
Hi I have a 07 f250 with a 6.0 my dash lights [n half the tach and oil and fuel gauges don't work , I put working bolbs in and still dont work. I would all the bulbs changed due to them being dim, could you give an estimate on the cost?
@30pvfd Жыл бұрын
In Marshfield Mo they do great work 👍👍👍about 20 mi from me
@mattreed7887 Жыл бұрын
Did your truck loose engine power when that happened, my truck gas started doing that and today while pulling a trailer the truck had no engine power and the cluster was not working
@30pvfd Жыл бұрын
Dam they are 10 miles away have to check if they are still in business my f250 cluster is doing same thing
@sbfnation25357 ай бұрын
If you start it and it doesn’t come on at all and you try to drive it the truck goes straight to 4th gear and won’t shift out of 4th until it comes back on
@elreyjohn111 ай бұрын
Man that’s like a normal problem with all ford 😩
@iditarod40813 жыл бұрын
My overdrive button knob is busted and the lever is hard to shift, my dome light is in pieces from previous light problems and my trailer brake attachment is dangling by my feet and the LEDs in my radio went out a couple years ago. And now this summer my entire instrument cluster went out. Literally every idea the blogs say could cause this except maybe the overvoltage one I basically have already. Shaking my head.
@bryan104442 жыл бұрын
You bought a pile of shit
@evanpeterson6491 Жыл бұрын
What year is that truck
@life-ingwithkenandphyllis9014 Жыл бұрын
2005
@bryancazarin50393 жыл бұрын
Bro I wonder if I can use this cluster on my 03 7.3 lmao
@life-ingwithkenandphyllis90143 жыл бұрын
Hey Brian I’m not sure. I think the stuff is pretty standard for model years. It made the difference for mine. Still running great.
@slowsixo3 жыл бұрын
Just got mine done from circuit board medics.
@Carnage6.0L3 жыл бұрын
What did that cost you to send yours and get it fixed and to receive it?
@slowsixo3 жыл бұрын
@@Carnage6.0L $329.99... I had them send me a repaired one and then I sent them mine so i wouldn't have any downtime. It's more expensive that way tho.
@Carnage6.0L3 жыл бұрын
@@slowsixo mine does the same thing while driving. Mine also flashes intermittent parking brake light even when the parking brake is released.
@70torinogt70 Жыл бұрын
My lights always stay on just loose power windows n guages radio
@justinjessup79078 ай бұрын
Did this fix the issues you had?
@donbeaubien23728 ай бұрын
Dashboard medics
@DyslexicLunatic Жыл бұрын
Could easily have shown how your removed the panel. Thanks for wasting my time.
@dlwood7777 Жыл бұрын
There's plenty of videos on how to do that it's not rocket science
@kylebachman44775 ай бұрын
If you have to be shown how to remove it. You prolly shouldn't be