Speedo not working, need suggestions

[migit]

So I've done a lot of searching on zilvia and google and am looking for suggestions now on what to check. Long story short everything in my gauge cluster works, minus the speedometer. I got in contact with the previous owner and was informed that he was told it was the speed sensor (By the owner before him :duh:). Cars a s13 sr20det, was originally a 240sx se, always been manual.


So I found the speed sensor :rawk:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1728/speedo.jpg

Then came to the realization I have no clue how to tell if it functions properly or not. But it looked fine.. ha. Anyways, Traced all the wiring as best I could and everything appears fine.

I haven't tried hardwiring like told here Hardwire speedsensor to cluster?! (http://zilvia.net/f/s-chassis/248941-hardwire-speedsensor-cluster.html?highlight=speedometer) Not sure if that would really do me any good though.

Next step that I'm thinking of is trying to pull a speed sensor out of another 240 and give it a try, but I'd have to wait until this weekend and go track down a junk yard with a s13. I'm not sure where else to look to troubleshoot the problem now. If anyone has any better suggestions or something I should read, I'd appreciate it!

[migit]

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Well I got a new speed sensor, installed it. Still no speedo. The new speedsensor came out of a s13 sr20det, so it should work with a jdm cluster. I guess I'll go get my hands on some wire and try to hardwire it to the back of the cluster. If anyone has any suggestion on where to go from here or thinks hardwiring is the next best choice I'd appreciate the input.

[got boost??]

no help here but i would like some incite on this too

[Cedarcbr]

mine did the same thing earlier this year. turned out to be the guage itself. hope that helps

[migit]

I got to go back to mckinney's this week, maybe they'll have a cluster laying around I can trouble shoot with. Only wire in my house I can find long enough is cat5... all though I'm sure it could work I'm not gonna try that. I'll have to go pick up some wire from homedepot tomorrow, already drank to much to venture out woops. Probably not a good idea to bust out a solder either...