HELP!!!!!! I Confused My ST

[Michael Johnson 2]

This weekend i converted my door switches and dash switches to blue leds (Thanks to Dan Long for a great and detailed project) but i took it one step further and changed my gauges to blue as well. However my Tach and Speedo are out of adjustment. Does anyone know how to correct this. I know im not going 130mph at 1200 rpm. Thanks

 

[Dallas Starr]

I had to battle with that... the best thing i did was purchase a scangauge 2 and it told me everything... set the needles accordingly.



you can also get on a highway and get someone to pull even with you at exactly 60mph and you could set it to get close....



be sure to post pics when you can.



This was what mine looked like when I did it.... when you got to adjust the needles get some off a late 90's explorer and they will be white... :





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Since I bought gauges from speedhut... this is now:



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[Michael Johnson 2]

WOW! Big D the top pics looks great way better than mine. How did you do it and do you still have them since you got your new ones

 

[ray moyer]

gah!



i love the superman guage!!! lol



would match my truck amazingly!!! lol



very nice dude!!!



wish i felt comfortable enough to do all that:wacko:

 

[Todd Z]

There is a factory reset procedure, But I don't know if that is public knowledge...



Try searching the net...



The instructions should have told you how to install properly so this does not happen,,,,



Todd Z

 

[Tom Schindler]

A GPS would work to to get you a dead on accurate reading of speed to calibrate your speedometer.





Tom

 

[Scott Gabriel]

this is how i did mine for my 01 ranger, and 99 ranger (and I did it with 03 trac gauges for both). My 99's are in the howto



http://www.rangerpowersports.com/tech/?p=131



of course I couldn't get a good pic of it

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[Kevin Long]

I did this project a couple years ago.

I had the dash out and had someone go down the road at 60mph and got up to the same speed...set the cruise, and stuck the needle on 60.

Your idle RPM should be about 1800-1900. I started it, let it idle for a couple minutes and stuck the needle on 1800.

 

[Dallas Starr]

Mine light up the way they do because I oredered 5 way leds from ebay. Like these.

 

[ray moyer]

they make a guage for an 05??? ones i saw went up to 02 i think....

 

[David Griffith 2]

I like the pillar gauges Scott..

 

[Jeff C]

Kevin, your idle is 1800-1900? WTF!?

 

[Dallas Starr]

mine idles in the high 600's i think....

 

[Roger Batts]

If you hold the trip odometer button while turning the key on, you can put your cluster into diagnostic mode. Hold the button until the needles move and you hear a chime. You can keep pushing the button to get various codes and compare the tach and speedo to the cluster. This is on a Focus, but it works just as well for most vehicles that don't have a message center on the dash.

 

[Michael Johnson 2]

Will that work on an 01 st rodger

 

[Dallas Starr]

it doesnt reset anything and it looks like it only works on digital gauges.... not analog like the 01's

 

[Dan Long]

I'm glad the project worked out well for you. I added Speedhut gauges to mine to finish off the blue lighting, I wasn't crazy about the hot spots that the LED's seemed to leave in the gauges. Also, I didn't want to deal with trying to reset the needles. The best way to correct it would be to use a ScanGauge or similar device so you can see the exact values, there's also some programs you can get for a laptop, but you'll need an interface cable.

 

[Roger Batts]

Sorry! I forgot the earlier clusters were analog, but if yours is digital and you have the lens off your cluster, you can use it if you have the needles off the tach and speedo to reset them. I would suggest having the wheels off the ground (safely, of course) instead of trying to drive and stick the needles back on!