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I went to a junkyard today and got a perfect cluster with only 60K on it, but alas, my 95 MTX is cable driven speedo, and the cluster I must be electronic because there is no inlet for a cable on the back. Oh well. I guess I will have to look for an older donor car. Is swapping the circuit boards ez? u are referring to the board inside the clusters, correct?
Thanks...
CURRENT RIDE: 95 GL FORMER RIDE: 99 SVT ( www.mysvt.com) "You only live once, but if you lived my life, once would be enough." -Frank Sinatra
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Joe, Roger that...next time I'm there I'll check it out. You and JountourSVT might try working something out...sounds like he got a cluster he can't use...I'll bet you could use it. Originally posted by JontourSVT:
I went to a junkyard today and got a perfect cluster with only 60K on it, but alas, my 95 MTX is cable driven speedo, and the cluster I must be electronic because there is no inlet for a cable on the back. Oh well. I guess I will have to look for an older donor car. Is swapping the circuit boards ez? u are referring to the board inside the clusters, correct?
Thanks... Swapping the boards on my car(98.5) was easy, yes, on the earlier cars it might be a bigger problem. I've never looked so I can't say for sure. With my car the whole board comes off with three torx head bolts...thats it. If I can get a pic hosted I'll post the pics I took of the install up here. 
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Originally posted by ZetecRacing: you guys are the LUCKY few.... mine doesn't  so I must say hello to an autometer tach soon That must be rough, MTX w/o a tach.
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So is 1995 the only cable driven speedo year?
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No. It was changed part way in 96 I believe. There is a date for it.
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I found a cluster for $50 from a place a mile from my apt! Before buying it I need to know, can you swap odometers?
Mine is a '96 Contour GL, the new cluster is from a '95 Mystique. The new cluster has 135k, mine has 91k. Also, will I run into speedo cable issues?
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Originally posted by JontourSVT:
So is 1995 the only cable driven speedo year? yes, those were the only ones that were OBD I 96 and newer were OBD II and were not cable driven.
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ah, i see, thanks...
also, give me a few more days, if i dont hear back from the other guy, you get dibs on the cluster.
CURRENT RIDE: 95 GL FORMER RIDE: 99 SVT ( www.mysvt.com) "You only live once, but if you lived my life, once would be enough." -Frank Sinatra
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Originally posted by ButtonPuncher 1.0b:
I found a cluster for $50 from a place a mile from my apt! Before buying it I need to know, can you swap odometers?
Mine is a '96 Contour GL, the new cluster is from a '95 Mystique. The new cluster has 135k, mine has 91k. Also, will I run into speedo cable issues? anyone else know of a cable drive cluster with tach, (mileage doesnt matter) for sale somewhere?
CURRENT RIDE: 95 GL FORMER RIDE: 99 SVT ( www.mysvt.com) "You only live once, but if you lived my life, once would be enough." -Frank Sinatra
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FWIW I have a tach cluster from a 96 Zetec. Lemme know what year you have. If you get a car with the same year you're allright.
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John
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