I had the same problem with my 03. I try to get a hold of the guys you used to work on my but they would never call me back. So I sent it to a company in Florida. I got it back and still nothing worked. I contacted them and sent it back. They email me a video of it working good on their test. I installed it today and still not working. They said I have other problems with my wiring. I checked the shift arm for bad spots in the wiring and even took it apart to check the wires inside and seen none. About ready to pull my hair out trying to find the problem.
I hope you have it figured out by now Alvin. There were a few other causes I saw in searching for an answer to my problem. One was something about the dome light, can't remember exactly what but I think there are some other videos on that. The other was a voltage problem. I checked mine old school with a multimeter at the battery terminals, but I remember watching another video on how problems with the voltage regulator can knock out your instrument cluster. Hope it helps man, no bigger stress than a messed up truck!
@@life-ingwithkenandphyllis9014 I did finally found the problem for one gage. It was a wiring problem behind the cluster. I still don't have a RPM gage not working. I heard the 2003 7.3 gets it's signal from the cam sensor. The cam sensor works because my truck starts unless it some part of the cam sensor it gets it's sensor from. I use this truck mostly as a ranch truck so it really doesn't matter if it works or not. Thanks for the reply back.
just put some dielectric grease on the connector its obviously just a connection problem. Ford recommends it on every electrical connector in the Truck especially if you live somewhere with high humidity. It's especially important on the ficm connections because they tend to attract humidity because of the heat cycles.
That is not the case at all. It is several things. One is the blue connector pins on the board break the surrounding solder and cause a bad connection. The big one is on the cluster itself. Being the 8 pin battery saver marked 1002. This also either loses solder connection or most of the time goes bad. These companies take the time and carefully go through the entire board resoldering connections and updating and upgrading the battery saver and several other known problems. Dielectric grease ain't fixing it at all
@@kylebachman4477 The pins aren't the best material like gold plating and they suffer from corrosion which causes high resistance which causes excess heat which causes all the issues you just described.
Hi I have a 07 f250 with a 6.0 my dash lights [n half the tach and oil and fuel gauges don't work , I put working bolbs in and still dont work. I would all the bulbs changed due to them being dim, could you give an estimate on the cost?
Did your truck loose engine power when that happened, my truck gas started doing that and today while pulling a trailer the truck had no engine power and the cluster was not working
If you start it and it doesn’t come on at all and you try to drive it the truck goes straight to 4th gear and won’t shift out of 4th until it comes back on
@@Carnage6.0L $329.99... I had them send me a repaired one and then I sent them mine so i wouldn't have any downtime. It's more expensive that way tho.
My overdrive button knob is busted and the lever is hard to shift, my dome light is in pieces from previous light problems and my trailer brake attachment is dangling by my feet and the LEDs in my radio went out a couple years ago. And now this summer my entire instrument cluster went out. Literally every idea the blogs say could cause this except maybe the overvoltage one I basically have already. Shaking my head.
I had the same problem with my 03. I try to get a hold of the guys you used to work on my but they would never call me back. So I sent it to a company in Florida. I got it back and still nothing worked. I contacted them and sent it back. They email me a video of it working good on their test. I installed it today and still not working. They said I have other problems with my wiring. I checked the shift arm for bad spots in the wiring and even took it apart to check the wires inside and seen none. About ready to pull my hair out trying to find the problem.
I hope you have it figured out by now Alvin. There were a few other causes I saw in searching for an answer to my problem. One was something about the dome light, can't remember exactly what but I think there are some other videos on that. The other was a voltage problem. I checked mine old school with a multimeter at the battery terminals, but I remember watching another video on how problems with the voltage regulator can knock out your instrument cluster. Hope it helps man, no bigger stress than a messed up truck!
Gracias
@@life-ingwithkenandphyllis9014 I did finally found the problem for one gage. It was a wiring problem behind the cluster. I still don't have a RPM gage not working. I heard the 2003 7.3 gets it's signal from the cam sensor. The cam sensor works because my truck starts unless it some part of the cam sensor it gets it's sensor from. I use this truck mostly as a ranch truck so it really doesn't matter if it works or not. Thanks for the reply back.
just put some dielectric grease on the connector its obviously just a connection problem. Ford recommends it on every electrical connector in the Truck especially if you live somewhere with high humidity. It's especially important on the ficm connections because they tend to attract humidity because of the heat cycles.
That is not the case at all. It is several things. One is the blue connector pins on the board break the surrounding solder and cause a bad connection. The big one is on the cluster itself. Being the 8 pin battery saver marked 1002. This also either loses solder connection or most of the time goes bad. These companies take the time and carefully go through the entire board resoldering connections and updating and upgrading the battery saver and several other known problems. Dielectric grease ain't fixing it at all
@@kylebachman4477 The pins aren't the best material like gold plating and they suffer from corrosion which causes high resistance which causes excess heat which causes all the issues you just described.
Hi I have a 07 f250 with a 6.0 my dash lights [n half the tach and oil and fuel gauges don't work , I put working bolbs in and still dont work. I would all the bulbs changed due to them being dim, could you give an estimate on the cost?
The engine works fine driving without the cluster. It’s only the gauges and power windows and radio basically.
I have a bulb burned out on my 2006 Ford F-250. Couldn’t find where the Bulbs are located. Where are the bulbs located at on these things
Did your truck loose engine power when that happened, my truck gas started doing that and today while pulling a trailer the truck had no engine power and the cluster was not working
In Marshfield Mo they do great work 👍👍👍about 20 mi from me
Dam they are 10 miles away have to check if they are still in business my f250 cluster is doing same thing
What year is that truck
2005
If you start it and it doesn’t come on at all and you try to drive it the truck goes straight to 4th gear and won’t shift out of 4th until it comes back on
Man that’s like a normal problem with all ford 😩
Just got mine done from circuit board medics.
What did that cost you to send yours and get it fixed and to receive it?
@@Carnage6.0L $329.99... I had them send me a repaired one and then I sent them mine so i wouldn't have any downtime. It's more expensive that way tho.
@@slowsixo mine does the same thing while driving. Mine also flashes intermittent parking brake light even when the parking brake is released.
My overdrive button knob is busted and the lever is hard to shift, my dome light is in pieces from previous light problems and my trailer brake attachment is dangling by my feet and the LEDs in my radio went out a couple years ago. And now this summer my entire instrument cluster went out. Literally every idea the blogs say could cause this except maybe the overvoltage one I basically have already. Shaking my head.
You bought a pile of shit
Bro I wonder if I can use this cluster on my 03 7.3 lmao
Hey Brian I’m not sure. I think the stuff is pretty standard for model years. It made the difference for mine. Still running great.
My lights always stay on just loose power windows n guages radio
Did this fix the issues you had?
Dashboard medics
Could easily have shown how your removed the panel. Thanks for wasting my time.
There's plenty of videos on how to do that it's not rocket science
If you have to be shown how to remove it. You prolly shouldn't be