Inoperative Gauges

[Tractorman]

All gauges in instrument cluster with the exception of speedometer and fuel are inoperative.
Has anyone run across a common problem for this?

 

[Trucksareforwork]

If you mean suddenly they are inoperative, then no. I don’t remember if there is a common fuse or anything.

But, when I got my ‘85 it’s oil pressure, temp, and voltage gauges did not work and I took the cluster apart, cleaned them up, and tested them. Two were fine and the problem was downstream (new oil pressure sender, new temp sender). The voltage gauge needed a new resistor which was a 10 cent part that I wired up behind the gauge in 2 minutes.

So, if you are talking about repairing gauges that have quit one by one over time, then it’s trial and error and get out your multimeter and a 12v source.

If all of the sudden then I don’t know.

 

[Tractorman]

Thank you was not all of a sudden so I will give your approach a try.

 

[Snoots]

Check your ground buss that's just behind the parking brake on the upper part of the kickpanel.

 

[Finkaire]

There’s a plastic circuit board that contains the ground. I used a paper clip to fix, years later I bought a board on line.