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   "Jeff Strickland"  wrote in message   
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   > "JoeSpareBedroom"  wrote in message   
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   >> 2002 Tacoma - temp & fuel gauge needles are bottomed out. Speedo & tach   
   >> both working, and so is the illumination in the instrument panel. Anyone   
   >> know the common denominator for the two gauges? Fuse tested OK, but I   
   >> tried a new one anyway.   
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   >   
   >   
   > I noticed that you told Ray that you had to tug on some wires to get the   
   > light sockets to come out far enough to change the lamps. I'm gonna second   
   > Ray's suggestion to pull the instrument cluster out and see if you   
   > unplugged something. You probably unplugged something while yanking the   
   > wires around. I don't recall the layout of the guages in my daughter's   
   > Tacoma, but if they are adjacent to one another, I'd expect you to have   
   > pulled the connector off.   
   >   
   > They use a lot of ribbon cables that are easy to unplug. They might be   
   > easier to unplug than to plug in again. You should be prepared to not find   
   > wires, per se, connecting the guages.   
      
      
   From left to right, the arrangement is temp gauge, tach, speedo, fuel gauge.   
   But it's probably still just one bundle for the two that are having a   
   problem.   
      
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