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E30 instrument cluster short?

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Okay I'm sort of stuck now, I replaced the odometer cogs in my cluster - they all work fine

BUT

Now the tachometer does not work, at first it was a blown fuse #21 changed that and it went fine put it all back together then i could smell burning plastic..

I opened it up and part of the board was fried (see photos) i got a new cluster unit and changed the circuit boards over (swapped the intrument heads over to the new boards) and drove the car around for 5 mins to test it (went fine) put everything back together and the same burning happend.

Refer photos below:

White needles original circuit board.

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Red needles new circuit board.

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The problem seems to happen between the yellow plug (pin 24) and blue plug (pin 2) http://s26.beta.photobucket.com/user/Staro...53d97b.jpg.html

I used the same SI board could this be the issue?

My car does not have an OBC

Any ideas ??

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Should also mention that my instrument cluster is motometer, I've traced the pin from the blue plug and it is the red/green constant + wire. Which also leads to the stereo and the clock.

Both clock and stereo work, so could it be a possibility it shorting somewhere there?

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There is a short in that burnt circuit - wherever the burnt track leads to. I cant recall the cluster internals offhand.

A short will always start from the problem & lead back to it's source - in this case the red/green - obviously fuse 21.

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