Hit a pothole and my dash stopped working

Howdy y'all I was dropping a buddy off at his apartment and while driving home I hit a pothole and then my tachometer stopped working. Seconds later my speedometer stopped working, then my odometer, then my gas gauge. I pulled over and turned the truck off a few minutes while I inspected the truck and continued my blind drive home. The gas gauge began working again but none of the other dash components still work.

It's most likely a fuse or wire connection broke but I'm not sure where to begin. Has this happened to anybody before?

 

Check your gauge fuse !

If not that break out the Meter loose connection or broken wire causing a open circuit some place.

Might be a Circuit Ground.

 

Make a fist and smash the dash. It’s works every time on my 88’ Runner.

 

Sounds like a loose ground wire to me. Check all of them, as well as battery cable connections.

 

Fuses don't magically repair themselves, so the fact that your gas gauge came back, tells me it's not a fuse.

As others said, likely a ground, or a loose connection on the back of the dash. I see pulling the dash apart in your near future.

 

Thanks man! I'm about to go out there and give it a try. Good advice!

 

Lmaooo basically XD it was a massive pothole under an underpass. I could have sworn my taco has hit bigger bumpers harder LOL

 

Lol my first step while driving while it went out was to give it a good wack but didnt help

 

The broken hand and the 2 weeks unable to work was a very expensive lesson.

About $3000.00

 

I checked all the fuses I could and nothing is blown. The gas gauge definitely doesn’t work anymore , I turned it on and it says I got a full tank when I know it’s empty. In the morning I’m pulling the dash before the sun gets too hot

 

Good Luck You could trouble shoot things without pulling the dash apart till you narrow things down more.

It is only the Tach and Speedometer and Fuel gauge. or the whole cluster ? Do the lights on the Cluster still work??

Check the Ground behind the left kick panel.

 

So the tach, speedometer, odometer do not work. The fuel gauge says my tank is overflowing lol. My dash is all lit up from lights and my temperature gauge works too. I checked the fuses but I didn't test any wires yet. I got an electrician friend coming tomorrow afternoon with a multimeter to try and help me figure out the problem.

Good cal about the ground, ill do some more reading and looking at images and ill test that!

 

i have fixed many electrical problems other then changing bulbs most times it is a waste of time pulling the cluster out .

Check the speed sensor on the case to see if that has not come apart or been damaged .

Did you hit the front or rear ?

The impact may have jarred the float enough it hung up or moved showing full tank.

The tach signal comes from the igniter Power Source is The Dome light fuse.

Hope that helps

 

Haven’t had this exact thing happen, but did hit a bad bump that popped both my headlights.. check your fuses and your negative battery cable not at the battery but the cable wire itself.

 

A hard bump setting this off really sounds like a loose ground somewhere to me. Practically the same thing happened to a guy on here months ago and his truck died all together until he found the loose wire.

 

Run over an even bigger pot hole and see if it fixes it!

 

Reminds me of this:

 

That's a tough one. Sorry to hear your trouble. I did just have to replace my cluster because of a short somewhere. Lost the gauges when I was replacing light bulbs in the cluster. I had to buy a replacement cluster and it has been working fine. There is something back there that is very sensitive. I chased all the wires with a voltmeter and it didn't get me anywhere.

i will say that i did blow the gauge fuse the first time. I replaced it and did the same thing again. except this time something else shorted in the cluster.

I have a local automotive electrician that helped me (in San Antonio, TX). If you need cluster work, he is the guy.