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Yes i took mine total out doing the clutch return spring. Found out two 12mm bolts holding it in have no nuts on top just loosen em up easy as pie. I took the whole dash out pretty much to beable to see in there. Cover on steering comes off think five screws, four on knee bolster cover, unclip where security light flashes,outer cover on spedo area four bolts, another four holding cluster in place. Its a tight fit tilt the cluster at slight angle undo first clip then the second, the wires are still attached with plastic thingy mine came off. Not hard at all to do, take your time not to scratch anything. You may find once you reclip the cluster wires back in everything works good again?

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i already uninstalled and cleaned everything. no change.

im not sure what part of the cluster is bad.

in a previous post i claimed it was my speedo sensor. pretty sure im wrong though

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Well I fixed this problem. Ok I didn't fix it myself, but I sent my instrument cluster to these guys:

http://www.carradio.com/

They seem to have fixed it. Drove for over 3 hrs yesterday and it didn't malfunction at all. It cost me $275 which seems to be the going rate if you look around on the web. Kinda spendy, but really your only option. I am surprised that the instrument control unit is no longer available from Nissan. Seems strange for a 2000 model to already have parts that are not available. Anyhow it is fixed now.

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New parts available here

http://www.courtesyparts.com/frontier-pa..._2168_2171.html

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OK...

in the event you have a Gauge cluster that has random bouncing needles and a blinking or screwy odometer then this repair could get you squared up.

First remove the cluster

See any service manual for the how to.

once you get the cluster on a work bench you'll need to unassemble the housing (clear plastic front from white plastic back with circuit board )
you'll need to remove the 4 screws that hold the Speedometer in place. then through the top of the cluster there is a small trap door with two clips. pop that off and unclip the circuit board from the speedometer ( be careful the fiber pin set is thin).

after that remove two screws from the back of the speedometer pot then un solder the speedometer from the board via 4 pins.

here is the speedometer pot with 4 pins


here is the back of the speedometer board with the pin holes to unsolder marked and the two screws circled




Now you will be able to see your problem


the two transistors on the board seen by the arrow need replaced. you will need to unsolder the 6 pins and unistall these transistors.


here are the transistors next to the board.
finding a replacement wont be too terrible but i couldnt find a direct replacement so i had to find a suitable substitute.

Factory transistors are NPN transistors and the markings will sho the specs.

However I went with a NTE transister with the same specs.

here you can see the new transistor

these need to be installed with the letters facing to the right when looking at the face head on.

once these transistors are installed you can re install the speedometer and reverse the rest of the processs and you should be good to go.

this is at least a $250 savings(parts alone) pending which direction you would have gone about replacing the entire cluster for no good reason.

I used http://www.mouser.com
if your transistors look like mine then you need a NTE152 transistor

enjoy and good luck

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