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L series clock help (RX turbo)
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:10 am
by r00fi
Clock in the middle of my dash has stopped working (86 RX turbo)
Can anyone tell me how to remove the clock? Hopefully it's not a "dash out" problem
Is this a common problem?
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:49 am
by BrennyV
should be able to pop it out. just clips in on the sides from what i remember, and its just a unplug and re plug and ya done
make sure you do it slowly tho, sundamage will make it very brittle and easy to brake.
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:23 pm
by subelover
yep just get something soft and gently pry the clock out they just click back in eezy peezy..cheers
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:31 pm
by stamp_licker
give it he old fonz tap gets mine working again
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:39 pm
by maudsland
if all that fails ,,,,, try a big hammer,,,,, if in doubt give it a clout, bigger the doubt bigger the clout
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:49 pm
by Chris_Rogers
it will pop out. if you cannot pop it out drop the glovebox out and give it a push from behind.
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:31 pm
by Alex
yeh they just pop out....mine crapped itself too, one of the resistors gets extremely hot, and the colours have burnt off, so i dont know what resistance it is!
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:46 pm
by Subafury
check ur fuse too. just a thought- sometimes its the simplest thing.
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:52 pm
by Suby Wan Kenobi
Sometimes the plug gets jammed on one of the dash supports
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:55 pm
by PeeJay
After I did the EJ conversion mine keeps loosing time... I'll have to check it out one of these days...
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:14 pm
by steptoe
the clock has the dash coloured plastic surround that comes out with it, the wedge clips are at each side, not top or bottom. Why five wires to run a clock ? 2 are for the light up bits
been thinking of something different to shove in the hole - turbo timer ?
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:15 pm
by waggaclint
PeeJay thats because the car is faster now with a ej in it and the clock cant keep up.....lol
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:40 pm
by r00fi
jono wrote:
been thinking of something different to shove in the hole - turbo timer ?
How about a Megaview?
http://www.bgsoflex.com/mv/megaview.html
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:29 pm
by Captain Obvious
hey for all you guys out there with l's and stuff clock if you have a soldering iron they are esay fix, for some reason son of the solder on the capacitors go dry and the clock display will fade in and out, pull the cold out oull it apart and re solder the joints and it should work again, dit this to a few i had and they worked ever since....
hope that helps
cheers
bryan
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:05 am
by steptoe
out comes the soldering iron and wiring diagram
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:00 am
by fredsub
I have resoldered the wires to it, replaced a resistor, and the thing is still playing up..........must be full of dry joints, last time i broke the clips too:mad:
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:34 pm
by r00fi
I haven't removed mine yet, but if there are any electrolytic capacitors on the board, try replacing them too. They are notorious for drying out.
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:07 am
by r00fi
Clock fix
This resistor is in the supply (probably for a Zener diode) and gets hot.
Eventually leads to solder failure.
Resoldered and is now perfect....
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:19 am
by Alex
what are the specs of that resistor? mine is fully stuffed!
alex
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:01 pm
by r00fi
I have a high res version of the pic but can't read the exact ohm value written on the pcb. It's definately 2 Watt, and has 820J stamped on the resistor (820 ohm???). You could try a 1K 2W or maybe someone has a clock laying around the garage that they read the value from?