c mon guys someone must know how i get this fixed, im sure its happened to somone before.!

I took out the dash cluster to see if i could make some custom displays, diconected all the wires and wat-not.
now ive put it back in and when i turn the key to acc,the tacco goes up to 3,000RPM. then when i start it and it is idle'ing its at about 4,000RPM.
I dont know what to do, how do i fix it! someone help me.
i disconected the negative battery terminal hoping that it might reset the Computer but it is still out of wack.
someone help me,
oh, i got a 1996 TE.

well im taking it your car isnt actually idling at 4000 rpm, it just says that.

Does the rest of your cluster work ok? Because we put back together a CE lancer and the connectors in the back of the cluster could be reversed and switched over. Sometimes the odometer wouldnt come on, sometimes the SRS light would be on even though it doest have srs. So we swapped and spun the connectors around for a while 'til it came good.

I assume you took off the needles to get to the guage faces?

When putting the needles back on (tach), the car needs to be at operating temprature and idling.

If in park or nuetral the car will idle hi - anywhere from 1,000 to 1,300 on my Diamante.

In Gear (drive), the car will idle between 750 to 800 on my Diamante.

I warmed up the D to proper temp, put the D in gear (D), and then put on the tach neddle to the proper guage/tach reading. Use very little preasure to get the neddles back on.

Hope this helps

TG

Thats some pretty good lateral thinking there LRuff98163. I didnt even think about if he'd taken the needles off. Wonder if he did. :D

I thought he had! Take the tacho needle off (carefully!!!). Turn the car on, but dont start the engine. Carefully put the needle back on, set at zero. Should fix the problem. It did for me when i had to take my needles off