Which clusters (with tach) will work?

[Derek The Great]

I've been wanting to put one of those instrument panels with a tach in my ranger since i bought it. So I finally went to the scrap yard this saturday and pulled a wood grain trim panel and instrument panel(with tach) from an 88 bronco II. The cluster appeared to be a plug and play, but when i plugged my harnesses into it nothin worked... So my question is, which clusters will work? My ranger is a 94 so maybe they did something diff in 1988. I cant imagine that the engineers would make you swap out wiring harnesses just for a tach..
Thanks

 

[Derek The Great]

So i take it you cant just swap a cluster with a tach in place of a cluster without a tach? When i tried everything hooked up and fit perfect, its jus none of the gages worked. So i figured the cluster needs to be newer (maybe the engineers changed something)
Has anybody tried this before???
I cant be the only one who got tired of just looking at a spedometer..

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

I would like to know as well what is different. I'd tried to do the same thing. I went to put my reverse glows from my 89 2.9 B2 into my 94 4.0 Ranger by swapping the entire assembly and nothing worked right at all. The oil press gauge fluctuated with the directionals though, it was kind of funny. I ended up almost ruining my reverse glows because I had to peel them off the B2 cluster and reglue them into the cluster from my truck.

 

[rickcdewitt]

get a cluster from a 94 the 88 is much different

 

[Derek The Great]

get a cluster from a 94 the 88 is much different

does it have to be a 94? On a side note, the gage parts come apart, which is pretty cool because i can reuse my spedo since it's exactly the same... With that said, will the tach work? I did a tach swap for my old grand am and everything worked except i had to buy a sending unit for the oil pressure (duh). These ford things seem a bit silly though so thats y i ask. Oh, and removing the spedo isnt as bad as i thought it would be...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

does it have to be a 94? On a side note, the gage parts come apart, which is pretty cool because i can reuse my spedo since it's exactly the same... With that said, will the tach work? I did a tach swap for my old grand am and everything worked except i had to buy a sending unit for the oil pressure (duh). These ford things seem a bit silly though so thats y i ask. Oh, and removing the spedo isnt as bad as i thought it would be...

The closer to your year the more likely it is to work, not sure how you even thought that an '88 would work as they are a completely different style.

 

[Derek The Great]

The closer to your year the more likely it is to work, not sure how you even thought that an '88 would work as they are a completely different style.

well, maybe it wasnt an 88, but the instrument panel had the same dimensions, and the same gages mine had plus the tach.. my wiring harnesses plugged right into it so i thought it would be that simple, but no. when i flipped the key into the "run" position the oil pressure gage maxed out, and when i started it nothing changed... I'm hoping thats because ford did something different then. I'm gonna try a newer cluster regardless, but if someone on here can say that the swap will or will not work it would be great.

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

Must have been from an 89 cause that's when Ford swapped the dash