Tach and temp gauges stopped working

[garhett]

Went out to start her yesterday morning. Tach worked fine as usual, but after a few minutes just stop working. Temp gauge and parking brake light also mysteriously stopped working.

Guessing it's a ground, where's a good place to start looking?

Thanks!

[blurple124]

Does your fuel gauge work? If not, then it could be an issue with power from Fuse 1 (A) to the instrument panel. It still could be, but if the fuel gauge works then it could only be caused by a fault in the wiring between the fuel gauge and Tach (as far as I know).

It is possible that the parking light issue is separate, but there is the chance that a ground is shared somehow; someone else who is more knowledgeable will have to answer that question for you.

[velozi]

Check behind your instrument panel. Those two components meet at C25 connector. They also share a wire that jumps to both the tach and gauge.

[garhett]

Does your fuel gauge work? If not, then it could be an issue with power from Fuse 1 (A) to the instrument panel.

Just noticed today that the fuel gauge stopped working too! Ha, if it's a fuse I'm gonna be pretty embarresed

Check behind your instrument panel. Those two components meet at C25 connector

Thanks for the tip! if it's not the fuse I'll probably look there next

[spidernut]

I think this problem was caused by Venus passing between the Earth and the Sun because my Spider blew the same fuse on the way home at about 5:15 p.m. Pacific Time.

[garhett]

I think this problem was caused by Venus passing between the Earth and the Sun because my Spider blew the same fuse on the way home at about 5:15 p.m. Pacific Time.

Hahaha, never checked back (was just fuse), but that joke does deserve a few laughs

[JTBernhardt]

I had this problem a few months ago. I tried simply replacing the fuse, and it just continues to blow. I spent a day taking the dash apart to find that a wire was shorting out on the radio.

I started by un-plugging all the instruments, and various other things on the same circuit to determine where the short was.

Good luck!