well i just got a VE guage cluster from the junk yard...i just installed it and put everything back together...IT WORKS PERFECTLY....well the guage does.....i took the key out of the ignition...and my CD player, clock, and aftermarket guages are still on.........hmmm....... so i took it back apart and put the old one back in....same thing...so i just put the new one in for now.....you know when you turn your key to the "accessory" setting (first click)...well it seems like that my key is on the accessory, but it is really pulled out of the ignition.......what is causing this???????? i checked fuses and stuff.. all ok.......any ideas.....im gonna disconnect the negative therminal for now, but anybody know what i did????? i didnt smell any burning or anything..the car starts and runs fine also... so i dunno

 

Still modding your broke down car huh...

 

He'll spend 2K on a rebuilt tranny but not $100 plus shipping for my 2 trannys???

Oh well im sure hes having fun hammering the throttle doing 145mph

~Alex

 

im not rebuilding my tranny, im swapping in a 5 speed.....so your two trannys are worthless to me...LOL there is only one 5 speed around me it is a 1991 SE with 280,000 miles on it

 

my 5 speed has 217 on it. I put new oil in it and in the spring im going to mt-90, and it shifts great. syncros work great and everything.

oh well at least its not an auto slush box..

~Alex

 

seriously......

 

 

ohh i thought that they were both auto's....well ill see what my parents think

 

no Alex doesnt have a 5spd tranny for sale. cuz i would have bought it.

 

there was a complete VE5 for sale a week or so ago for like $300 aarontrio was selling it

 

well since there is no 5 speeds around me ( i dont want them shipped) there is a VE automatic in a junk yard with 68,666 miles on it ( i took the cluster out of it) but tthe thing that bothers me is that it wasnt hit..so either the tranny is blown or the engine...i have no way to tell.....it is $60 for the tranny (u-pull it yourself)...........so it is either a VE auto (68,666 miles) or a VG 5 speed (280,000 miles) what do u guys think... i want a 5 speed, but there arent many around me and i dont want one shipped and i need my car like right now......

 

I'd do the VE A/T tranny after hotwiring the car to start. that way you'll know if it's in there for a possible engine problem or something else.
there is a fairly good chance it's there due to VTC noise. it can easily be confused with rod knock by the untrained ear.

 

the motor is sitting on the ground.........so i cannot start it up....if anybody wants the motor...ill get it for ya (if i dont use it)



VTC noise after 68,000 miles????? the car is pretty dirty inside it has like sand or something all over it.

 

maybe it got flooded?

 

that could be true...it had dirt all over the face of the VE cluster (it is in my car now) but i dont see any water marks on the cluster or inside of it....

 

But if the trans worked I wouldn't mind it.

 

the junk yard sells it for $50..then i gotta go over and pull it with no jack and do it all by hand...the no jack part may be a little hard

 

back to the subject...anybody know what is wrong here??????

 

I'd look for a wire shorting out to another wire.

 

but all i did was change out my cluster....alright.. ill search tomorrow

 

bump......this was weird i didnt touch any wires besides the plugs to get the stuf out of my way....how would this make a wire short out... i dont feel like pulling a fuse out everytime i gotta leave my car out overnight so the battery dont die on me

 

sometimes the wires gett their insulation ground off and once you moved them they now touch the body

 

what you should do is put the old cluster in and see if that fixes the problem, and if it does, then you know you got a bum cluster, in which case you could try to swap out just the speedo's, and hopefully that would work ;-)

 

i did put the old one back in and there was no difference..... so i dunno