[Bob T]

Originally Posted by NICKCLINE

I'm planning to replace all my stepper motors but just one question.

Is the soldering really as difficult ad the Ebay sellers claim? I do some soldering on my RC crawler and am what I'd say a half-decent ametuer at it.

The guy who has the new stepper motors has big bold warnings saying it has to be done in a clean, static enviroment by a person with professional skills etc...Is it really that difficult to solder these on?

And on the subject of reseting the gauges. If you took a piece of masking tape and stuck it too the gauge cluster then marked where each gauge was pointing prior to removing the cluster couldn't you just replace the needle back to the same point? I'd think that would work for your fuel level, oil pressure, and trans/motor temp (as long as they were both cold when you started). The speedometer and RPM's is a different story. I guess for RPM's you could note where your idle is and replace it too that point. Speedometer would be easy right, if your in park you could just point the needle to 0mph....

Or am I just making this out to be way more difficult then it is?

Is the soldering really as difficult ad the Ebay sellers claim? Not for me; but I was a well-trained Navy electronics tech for 8 years, with massive experience since then. I think a reasonably careful person shouldn't have much problem.

The guy who has the new stepper motors has big bold warnings saying it has to be done in a clean, static environment by a person with professional skills etc...I used my kitchen table and didn't use an anti-static wrist strap. Maybe I should have; but it worked for me.

On your idea for resetting the pointers - You don't know where the new stepper motors are pointing when you put them on the circuit board; they don't have anything to make them point to "zero." That is why I powered up the dash - the stepper motors stepped away to the zero position when I turned the key back off.