Great video... thanks for not killing me with loud music. On another video a gentleman said he thinks it was a bad cluster. Research he found that around 2000 the government made the auto makers switch to lead free solder. The chemistry lead to the joints to " grow whiskers" and causes all kinds of havoc. Interesting weather true or not.
Correct, lead free solder is required now, & the silver based solder has issues w/ the silver corroding & causing the circuit board to become conductive. I have a 2003 Silverado & in warranty the inst. cluster was replaced. Now, 2023 I have a parasitic draw killing the battery if not driven daily. Plus new batteries go bad within a year. Had three in the last yr. go bad & the retailer wants to void the battery warranty. I have not been able to trace the draw yet & it's driving me nuts.
@@jerrystephenson1172 Try taking the cluster out and let it sit overnight. I'm having a drain issue too and can't figure it out. I rebuilt my dash , put in all new stepper motors and a trans temp gauge, along with blue LED lights, but I didn't see any solder issues. Best of luck.
I have no scanner just a needle nose pliers and common sense. I was watching You Tubes and a common issue was the IPC or cluster. I put the smart charger on and fully charged the battery. Left it over night and then reattached the charger it went to full 10AMPs. I then put the charger back on to fully charge and pulled the IPC fuse. After 6 hrs the charger was only at 1 AMP. My conclusion was the cluster was the source of the draw. The draw went away after pulling the IPC fuse. I also had an erratic speedo, that works most of the time, then doesn't, another symptom you mentioned.
There is places that repair them. You have to send them in or sometimes you just get a repaired one then you have to send them yours as a core. I just order them through my parts suppliers and that way they are all programmed and ready to go.
Those clusters sucked I have 2003 Silverado if you wouldn't drive it every day the battery would die. None of the gauges worked they all pointed every different way had to rebuild stepper motors
