[Jeffery9508]

k do 97 gauges work in a 95. if not than thats my prob bc i did it and they worked for like a week but now the temp. gauge and voltmeter is on the fritz plus the car is not starting right like the battery is dead or starter but all are new starter. battery and alternator. it wont crank now i think its the batt. anyone with hints here?

[Juggalo_X]

PATS you need to have your Anti theft disabled.

[tsp_2177]

i thought pats didn't come around till 97?
or is the pats not being there the problem with the gauges?

[Jeffery9508]

k whats "PATS" and how do i disable the antitheft i did have an alarm system on it but when we got the car it would beep and you couldnt turn it off so the cables are cut.

[tsp_2177]

pats is where you have to have the key with the chip programmed to your car, so it would be a whole lot harder to steal. but it's only in stangs 97 and up i believe...
and sorry i don't know how to disable the anti theft..

[Juggalo_X]

K isuue is u got a PATS cluster, and also fix ur alarm system cutting wires is not a good solution.

[tsp_2177]

ok thats what i was thinking you were saying, and would you just have to keep the alarm disabled after you put them in?

[Jeffery9508]

lol i didnt cut them lol i didnt even know it was there someone pointed it out lookin at the motor. k well the wiring cluster is from mine. all i used from the 97 is the actually gauge faces and little gauge motor things. only reason i got it is bc my needles are a nasty yellow instead of orange. and the clear plastic cover was glazed over.

[Juggalo_X]

Well if ur car is PATS capable Ford can reprogram the Encryption keys so that the swapped cluster will work. but he has an after market alarm that is screwed. and the cluster if it was from a pats car im pretty sure thats why its failing. and i thought the 95s still had an anti theft system.

[Juggalo_X]

Originally Posted by Jeffery9508 lol i didnt cut them lol i didnt even know it was there someone pointed it out lookin at the motor. k well the wiring cluster is from mine. all i used from the 97 is the actually gauge faces and little gauge motor things. only reason i got it is bc my needles are a nasty yellow instead of orange. and the clear plastic cover was glazed over.

so did u swap the cluster or did u hack and slash the guts?

[Jeffery9508]

well i can re-wire the alarm but it will the car will go apeshit and ill have to listnen to beeping till i get it fixed. so what your saying is the car wont start bc the anti-theft. and it did before bc the alarm n stuff is cut ? or something like that. wierd stuff i unpluged the neg. batt. cable last night while it was running the car shut down and then reved to hell b4 i hooked up also the whole electrical went out for that brief moment.

[Jeffery9508]

i plugged em into my existing gauge wiring it was and easy and quick swap and the car was working perfectly fine with exception the the cranking issue and temp/batt. gauges screwing up.

[Juggalo_X]

well ur ALT is probably shot too. cuz ur car should run off the alt if u remove the batt cables.

[Jeffery9508]

stupid remanufactured autoparts. the alt. is like 3 days old. as is the starter and the batt. is like a week.

[Jeffery9508]

i love tinkering on the stang tho if i didnt mess it up with mods and have to fix it day in and out i would have gottin into cars like i did. im trying to find an auto school to go to i wanna do this for a living. i wish i could just fix mustangs tho.

[Onemanzu]

sounds like you have some lose connections too check them

[Jeffery9508]

i tried everything i could think off we tested the battery and it says it was at 11.6v which is just below normal. and when ran at 1500rpms it the alternator should be running a charge or 14.v or higher and it only read 13.6v so somethings draining the power i guess im really baffled by this the only thing ive done to it is put those gauges in. and even if they didnt work the car should still crank normal.

[El_Cangri]

i would never buy re-manufactured parts for the only reason they broke on me like every week. Its better paying 20-30 bucks more for the "new" part not a "re-manufactured" one

[Jeffery9508]

yeah but the parts all have a lifetime warranty so i cant complain especially seeing as how they were bought when my grandparents were fixing the car to give to me.

[El_Cangri]

yeah its good and all i'm just saying they tend to fail more than the original "new" stuff