How to fix wrapped oil pressure gauge.

[ZavzTy547]

Originally Posted by Syclone #1721

the whole unit....I got them from rockauto.com

At all cost, try to avoid taking apart the header control, it was a PITA to put back together, especially if you have small hands or drink too much coffee...

[nello]

Nice post, looks like I've got some work to do. thx

[s_blazin]

I have personally found the heater controls very very easy to take apart, just use a pair of needle nose pliers grab onto the small round black metal clips and work it side to side and they come off very easily.

i don't have much patience but i can do this in a few mins, i actually pulled the cluster out of the work s10 last night to compare something on my truck and getting tools out doing the job and putting it back together took all of about 15 mins with putting tools away included.

biggest caution is to be very careful when pulling the hot/cold cable away from the heater control, the little red plastic clip can break very easily if your not careful, to do most of the removal of that cable and all the wiring connectors i have a mini flathead that works perfect.

it's really not as bad as a someone might think

[graham1524]

I have mine apart currently and on the back of the plate i took out the 2 silver screws and popped the slide controls off there slide thing and the face came off in a couple minutes

[turrrbo6]

Originally Posted by DaveP

^^X2^^ That's exactly what I did, also. Except I removed the headlight switch panel, and drilled the hole back there so it isn't visible in the cluster face. Took less than 3 minutes, including putting the tools away.

Mine's only done it twice in 8 years, so I didn't feel like a more permanent fix was justified. ( The extra pin method). Too easy to break stuff that wasn't broken before you began to fix something else.

Thanks for that tip Dave. I did the same thing to mine last night, easy fix and you can't see the small hole. This happened when I started mine at the shindig, first time ever and I've owned it since new. Lee

[Beavis]

Originally Posted by DaveP

^^X2^^ That's exactly what I did, also. Except I removed the headlight switch panel, and drilled the hole back there so it isn't visible in the cluster face. Took less than 3 minutes, including putting the tools away.

Mine's only done it twice in 8 years, so I didn't feel like a more permanent fix was justified. ( The extra pin method). Too easy to break stuff that wasn't broken before you began to fix something else.

Any pics of where you guys drilled the hole please.

[SRW1285]

Thanks for posting this! It saved me a lot of time as I thought it was just the oil pressure sensor that had gone bad. I came across this post right before we started taking things apart to get to the sensor haha. The pictures were very helpful! The only bad thing is that I have to do it again on my Typhoon because I did not install another stop. Lesson learned lol. Thanks again for the help!