jesterbomb
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- Alberta
Okay Guys, help me out if you can.
1991 4.0L HO, 5 Speed Transmission, Full gauge package (thankfully), 4 door, 4wd. Also, no lift. :-( Yet.
Here's the issue. For a while now my speedometer will just... not work. It never jumps around or gives inaccurate readings, it just occasionally sits at zero. Fortunately I know exactly what my Tach reads at various speeds in each gear, so I am in no danger of inadvertantly speeding.
After a while, twenty minutes or so, it will occasionally start working all of a sudden, without me doing a damn thing and that includes hitting bumps in the road. It never lasts for long and it doesn't happen that often. But... When it does that, my engine doesn't want to idle properly. When I put the clutch in to sit at a red light, the revs drop way down and the engine damn near stalls.
I never really worried about it too much, until yesterday I noticed that my odometer was ALSO not working when the speedo was doing it's misbehaving trick. And in fifth gear on the highway, my little idiot light telling me to shift up a gear was coming on.
That's the situation.
Can anyone give me some clues as to what I should be looking into here? What could possibly be casing this, etc?
Thanks ahead of time.
1991 4.0L HO, 5 Speed Transmission, Full gauge package (thankfully), 4 door, 4wd. Also, no lift. :-( Yet.
Here's the issue. For a while now my speedometer will just... not work. It never jumps around or gives inaccurate readings, it just occasionally sits at zero. Fortunately I know exactly what my Tach reads at various speeds in each gear, so I am in no danger of inadvertantly speeding.
After a while, twenty minutes or so, it will occasionally start working all of a sudden, without me doing a damn thing and that includes hitting bumps in the road. It never lasts for long and it doesn't happen that often. But... When it does that, my engine doesn't want to idle properly. When I put the clutch in to sit at a red light, the revs drop way down and the engine damn near stalls.
I never really worried about it too much, until yesterday I noticed that my odometer was ALSO not working when the speedo was doing it's misbehaving trick. And in fifth gear on the highway, my little idiot light telling me to shift up a gear was coming on.
That's the situation.
Can anyone give me some clues as to what I should be looking into here? What could possibly be casing this, etc?
Thanks ahead of time.
