dicespice

Hey All, I recently bought a 93 Lexus ES300 that was involved in a frontal accident with only 99,000 miles. I got a great deal on the car and started fixing the front end and other issues. Since it has been sitting at my buddies shop for a year the tachometer and odometer has stopped working. The tachometer needle moves just a little bit, and the odometer is now completely black. This is not the typical, "My Needles are OUT!", I don't really care about that right now. I have the cluster out and have taken it apart and pulled the circuit board out and have seen other forums with different models explaining what capacitors to replace and give certain numbers of the locations of the capacitors and resistors and what controls what. I have also gotten a factory service manual which is no real help on how to maybe fix the board. Unless someone has a better manual with some schematics in it. It did give me a test to plug into the harness and check for voltages at the tach to check the harness connection to the cluster, which I haven't done yet. All of my other gauges work, just the tach won't move more than a 1/4 inch and my odometer is blank. I'm about ready to sell the car at a loss, cause the value of the low mileage is now gone. I have watched many clusters on ebay with high mileage, which is backwards thinking of adding 50,000 miles on my car. 500.00 for a working one with 0 miles is not cool either. If Lexucan can come up with a cheap DIY needle fix, why can't I fix my cluster on the cheap as well??? Anyone?? Bueller?? I have searched the forums and found nothing for the ES, and the pros out their who fix these things for a living don't want to budge on any pointers which I understand, but maybe there is a manual on how to fix it better than factory I could purchase. I love DIY and love the feeling of learning and fixing new things, I'm not out to steal any trade secrets or start my own cluster building business, I just want to fix my ride and get the value of having a low mileage car back. You can even PM me and give me the down low on how to fix it rather than post it. Any help would be awesome. thanks in advance.

Check out www.superbrightleds.com Check this link out to be exact. http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/74_t15.htm Order the T1.5 they rock. I just bought a few of each one to see what the best way was to do it. No soldering, guessing, direct plug and play fit. I tried bulbs from the store (# 24 and 73) and the LED bulbs from this website as well. My bulb holders are brittle from being in there so long so the LED replacement bulbs just fall out and the 24 bulbs I got were a little fat, and didn't fit well. I think this is a manufacturer issue, another brand probably would work. But WHY!!! LEDs ROCK. I tried the B8.3D but they don't fit as nice or are as bright. I will get some pics when I get the rest of the bulbs to put it back together, I just ordered five more to finish it off. Hopefully I can find how to fix the tachometer and odometer before the bulbs come in. Anyone got a good schematic on what resistors to replace? And my needles, OH boy the needles.