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Check engine light : Gauge cluster without tachometer ( under the engine oil pressure gauge ) Gauge cluster with tachometer ( just to the left of the battery voltage gauge )
Yes , there was a mechanical gauge cluster and a mechanical gauge cluster with tachometer - but I'm sorry I don't know if they can be interchanged
Usually, 'cluster', refers to the instrument/gauge cluster or instrument/gauge panel that the driver looks at, containing the speedometer, fuel gauge, etc.
Yes, it would be the same fuse that feeds the entire gauge cluster.
If your gauge cluster has a tachometer:The "Check engine" light is under the tachometer just below the "1000."If your gauge cluster does not have a tachometer:The "Check engine" light is below the fuel gauge, just to the left of the high-beam headlight indicator.
It is the center gauge in the instrument cluster.
The cluster is the part that includes the speedo, odometer, fuel gauge, etc...
There is the ( low coolant ) warning light that is at the bottom of your gauge cluster between the engine temperature gauge and your tachometer
there is no cable, the ecm calculates the engines RPM and transmitts it to the microprocessor in the gauge cluster, via a serial data line.
Remove the instrument cluster cover. Each instrument gauge is secured separately with retaining screws. Remove the retaining screws from each gauge. Remove the wiring harnesses from each gauge.
I was looking at the drawings of the instrument panel ( gauge cluster ) in the 1997 Ford Crown Victoria Owner Guide and it doesn't have a factory tachometer
The more popular and safer mod to do would be to buy an entirely new gauge cluster out of a wrecked neon that had a tach. SRT and Tach clusters are direct swaps into neons with no tach (I've got an '03 SE with an '03 SRT-4 cluster). One downside - your mileage won't carry so your cluster will read the milage on the car it was removed from.