the 96 is a very much different car, than the 95, EFI aside
the car has a new side impact system on the dash making the cluster now in side steel box or very isolated from below.
that is correct, the OBD2 system does not ever talk (2 ways) to the cluster, like say a modern jeep does with JEEP having a full blown computer inside, (using CAN bus etc)
your cluster is 99% passive device, just lamps, old fashioned incandescent lamps, (tungsten filaments) 1% is VSS device.
the ECU uses a simple 100mA transistor to glow each lamp and if you use higher current lamps this overheats those transistors and puts them at risk for heat. (so is not bull that)
no mostly and the proof is here, we have drawings for the cluster, that are fully accurate and the full FSM is on pose 1 in this forum.
the gauges are passive (electric an are actually heaters that heat up and a bimetal coil heats and the needle moves up scale, so is crude as can be.
the odometer is a tiny gear driven box, that too is fully covered on my speedo page, full coverage.
the speedo needle is magnetic driving off cable end.
European page 24 look.
http://www.fixkick.com/ECU/1996/Full96%2...-power.pdf
yellow wire is VSS
C3 plug pin 4. seen here
GM shows the VSS missing in the cluster page but adds it here. later in the book. vol,2, chapter 8A-33
https://web.archive.org/web/201011191028...33_pdf.htm
good luck, and I do know what you are doing and it will work !!!
VSS the ECu will show errors if dead, if 5speed or (3speed auto) the 4speed many not show an error, IDK (4sp has 2 VSS) about you'd have to drive the car, and may take 2 or 3 trips to , make DTC error show up.l
yes there is one INPUT, that is VSS in the cluster.
the VSS clicks and tells ECU your speed, and is important. for fuel mixture moving fast or up hills.
the VSS on auto trans cars have 2 speed sensors.
one in the cluster VSS and one in the transmission VSS2.
so on the A/T car it uses VSS2 all the time (for sure the 4 speed) and then if that fails, transmission TCM brain fails back to the VSS1 in the cluster.
just the VSS matters, ive no idea what transmission you run. so....
good luck !
volume 2: covers 96 cluster
https://web.archive.org/web/201011191028...33_pdf.htm
the car has a new side impact system on the dash making the cluster now in side steel box or very isolated from below.
that is correct, the OBD2 system does not ever talk (2 ways) to the cluster, like say a modern jeep does with JEEP having a full blown computer inside, (using CAN bus etc)
your cluster is 99% passive device, just lamps, old fashioned incandescent lamps, (tungsten filaments) 1% is VSS device.
the ECU uses a simple 100mA transistor to glow each lamp and if you use higher current lamps this overheats those transistors and puts them at risk for heat. (so is not bull that)
no mostly and the proof is here, we have drawings for the cluster, that are fully accurate and the full FSM is on pose 1 in this forum.
the gauges are passive (electric an are actually heaters that heat up and a bimetal coil heats and the needle moves up scale, so is crude as can be.
the odometer is a tiny gear driven box, that too is fully covered on my speedo page, full coverage.
the speedo needle is magnetic driving off cable end.
European page 24 look.
http://www.fixkick.com/ECU/1996/Full96%2...-power.pdf
yellow wire is VSS
C3 plug pin 4. seen here
GM shows the VSS missing in the cluster page but adds it here. later in the book. vol,2, chapter 8A-33
https://web.archive.org/web/201011191028...33_pdf.htm
good luck, and I do know what you are doing and it will work !!!
VSS the ECu will show errors if dead, if 5speed or (3speed auto) the 4speed many not show an error, IDK (4sp has 2 VSS) about you'd have to drive the car, and may take 2 or 3 trips to , make DTC error show up.l
yes there is one INPUT, that is VSS in the cluster.
the VSS clicks and tells ECU your speed, and is important. for fuel mixture moving fast or up hills.
the VSS on auto trans cars have 2 speed sensors.
one in the cluster VSS and one in the transmission VSS2.
so on the A/T car it uses VSS2 all the time (for sure the 4 speed) and then if that fails, transmission TCM brain fails back to the VSS1 in the cluster.
just the VSS matters, ive no idea what transmission you run. so....
good luck !
volume 2: covers 96 cluster
https://web.archive.org/web/201011191028...33_pdf.htm
http://www.fixkick.com