Thanks for trying. My guage cluster is failing as we speak. The wiring has been checked and all the bulbs in the guage cluster have been replaced. It's definately my guage cluster or more appropriately the electrical line things on the backside of the guage cluster that is going.
The lights usually don't work on the speedometer, oil pressure and gas guages but everything else does, and today the gas guage just quit working, then it started working again.
If I have to replace the cluster I don't want the boring one I currently have, so I'm going to wait and put in the one with the tachometer.
I already replaced the entire front brakes, the entire rear brakes, both rear wheel cyinders, the passenger side rear hub bearing, all the bulbs in the guage cluster and every other interior bulb, the headgasket, the fuel pump, the radiater, the timing belt, tune up stuff, the coolant was flushed 3 times, the idle air control sensor was replaced, the throttle body was completely gone over, and a ton of other things I forget, all since March of this year. I have well over $3,000 in the car and every time I fix something, something else goes wrong inside of a two day period or less.
I still need to replace all 4 speakers since the radio doesn't work right because the speakers are all blown out and junk. But that has to wait until the control arm is replaced and the control arm bushings are replaced and the car is re-aligned.
Maybe I'll fix the speakers next, or maybe I'll have the front struts replaced first and eventually have the rear shocks replaced hopefully.
It's also likely the exhaust will need fixing at some point and the tires have flat spots from sitting so long so I'll need 4 new tires soon too. Obviously the money just isn't there to fix it all so I just keep doing what I can.
I can never sell it since I have every penny I own in it and it's my only car, but it would be nice to stop fixing everything for at least a month.
The car isn't a lemon, or even rusty, its from hawaii and has no real rust to speak of. It sat since 2009 in indoor storage and I'm just trying to get it going again.
At some point I'll also need a replacement for my rear seat, the part you sit on. The fabric is great but it has two or three tears in it.
My car has the brazillian 4 clinder 2.0 liter in it. i figure its likely one of the last remaining sunbirds still in excellent running shape and still on the road with this engine since most cars with this engine were junked and never fixed.
At least I have that unique feature.
