DIY - fixed in-car clock

My clock has been stopped for a long time. Although it doesn't bother me I still wanted to make it work. So this afternoon I took the instrument cluster out and got the assembly apart, used about half a hour fixed it. here is partial pics:

(1) Layout of modules (Speedometer and Tachometer. At right is the back of cluster; two capacitors from radio shack in bags):


(2) Closer look at tacho and speedo (on top is the outside temp gauge module):


(3) See two golden color coke-can shape elements? They are the capacitors needing to be replaced:


(4) After replaced (skip some pics here), these two are going to trash bin:


(5) When everything is done, put the instrument cluster back and clock is working:

所有跟帖： 

• 不错， 小顶 -北航新保理英子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/25/2009 postreply 18:54:04

• 靠。这个也能拆？ -曲线救国- ♂ (14 bytes) () 07/25/2009 postreply 18:54:06

• good job. how do u know the capacitors are the culprit? -fixanycars- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/25/2009 postreply 19:29:13

• I googled and many people said the capacitors were prone to be f -internuts- ♂ (175 bytes) () 07/25/2009 postreply 19:46:48

• it's great try.回复：I googled and many people said the capacitors -fixanycars- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 08:31:32

• this little odd to pin point capacitor w/o diagnose -WayCool- ♂ (200 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 06:28:57

• The chance of capacitor failure is the big -internuts- ♂ (339 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 06:46:09

• 小声问一下 -北航新保理英子- ♀ (78 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 08:46:08

• 大声回答一下~~ -internuts- ♂ (80 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 08:53:32

• 我还是喜欢煤油，改不了了。昨天做红烧肉没用煤油，难吃死。 -北航新保理英子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 08:56:47

• 听说煤油味道也不错,下次加别忘了,否则你LP不高兴.你是蓝的绿的? -internuts- ♂ (49 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:01:32

• 老外了，现在都啥时候，还分蓝的绿的， (图) -北航新保理英子- ♀ (260 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:09:03

• 殴, 你已经与时俱进了. "你喝的不是煤油,喝的是寂寞"~~ -internuts- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:32:11

• 煤油没有，豆腐吃吗？嘻嘻。 -DrunkerKickass- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:44:12

• 兄弟也弄潮啊~~ -internuts- ♂ (32 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:53:16

• 兄弟也弄潮啊~~ 。 你以为就女人弄潮？ 时代不同了。 -北航新保理英子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 10:06:58

• what are you talk about, DO IT YOURSELF -北航新保理英子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 08:28:20

• It should be...What are you talking about? -DrunkerKickass- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:40:19

• how old are you? 怎么老是你? -jingwei-wang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 11:12:25

• yes, I sould've -jingwei-wang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 11:13:15

• 沙发。我顶。。。。。。。。。。！ -DrunkerKickass- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 06:29:14

• 沙发 是啥意思？ -北航新保理英子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 08:58:54

• 都发表这么多中英混杂的文摘了，还不懂---我顶！ -DrunkerKickass- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:21:17

• 中英混杂=英文也不懂中文也不行。 都惨到这份上，您还撒盐不厚道 -北航新保理英子- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/26/2009 postreply 09:59:38

• 不错。花了多久把那两个表弄出来的？ -EPC- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/27/2009 postreply 10:10:08

• Took no time, probably 10 minutes -internuts- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/27/2009 postreply 11:30:35