Finally I got an American cluster for my Civic so I could replace the JDM cluster that came with my car.

I hooked it up today and all seemed to be fine, I took it for a spin once I got it all back together and noticed the speedometer wasnt working. All other guages are functioning properly. When I start the car the speedometer needle comes up and little just like the one in my Dad's Accord. When I start to move though, it dosent go any higher. Any ideas or did I just buy a broken cluster?

 

Check your VSS on the tranny but chances are that ***** broke.

 

Well the JDM speedo worked today, I stopped and got out of the car got a screwdriver and had it done in about 5 minutes, started the car and took off and it didnt work. I didnt disconnect the battery 1st like I should have, I just thought of that.

 

If your VSS is bad, you should get a CEL that says your VSS is bad. I had a funky speedo before... It would work fine and then die and then spring to life and die... I just got another cluster and swapped the speedo into the old one because the gas guage was broke in the new one. Mileage was off by about 100,000 miles but it worked.

 

what car are we talkin about here?

 

 

year wise ***.

maybe his 88-91 JDM cluster is a elec VSS when the american cluster is a cable VSS..

 

 

I don't think that should be a problem, I've changed clusters with the battery connected many times, no problems here. But I guess you SHOULD disconnect it.

Maybe a stupid suggestion, but are all the plus plugged in securely? Might wanna check that.

Well on one of my non-honda's the speedo stopped wotking, and it was a fuse, don't know if hondas have fuses for the speedo since I had no reason to check, but you might wanna check that out.

 

My speedo stopped working after I changed motors. ( took tranny out at the same time.) I didn't have a CEL. I unhooked the VSS and hooked it back up and it was fine.