yes, thank you. I didnt find that until after I had posted. I contacted a computer/electronics friend of mine and its all been explained to me.

thank you, i'm sure you'll see me posting again with questions.

AMK

 

trouble finding replacement resistors with out having to buy gross, will reg carbon based resistor work?

 

Yup, as long as they are the correct value. Ask your electronics friend to help you out, and this will go smooth.

In fact, tell him that the reason that the ones become detached is that they run HOT, and ask him to find the same value in a larger-wattage axial-lead resistor, and carefully solder it in place above the board. Many, many have done that with complete success.

Pop

 

I still havnt figured out if my 99 has a thermometer in it?

Any other 99's here know?

Ive got one blank screen when I push the buttons and Im wondering if thats where the thermometer should show up?

 

There's an "Off" position in the sequencing.

Could that be it?

Pop

 

Very, early 99's don't have it. My 9/98 dose. My brother in laws earlier one like may or so dose not.
Chet

 

Thanks Ford Friends!!! I just used this thread to fix my overhead computer. I drive a 2002 F-350 Lariat 7.3 Turbo. It's new to me (woo Hoo!) and the guy said the trip meter hasn't ever worked for him. Thanks to this thread, I found 2 loose resistors.

On the 2002 Lariat, the outer shell is held on only by 4 of those squeeze connectors (not the L-clips in back like this thread stated). Just some good steady pressure popped the whole thing down. Black inner shell was the same as described (except that you had to pull the roof lining up to get the wings of the black inner shell out from behind it.

I soldered the connections that were broken, and I realized that the reason they come undone, is because the board is upside down when installed. Those Resistors get hot, hot enough to soften up the solder, and then gravity makes one side or both release from the board. To combat this, I did the following: 1) check that the re-solder job was good by plugging in the computer and verifying it works, 2) un-plug the PC board, take it back inside, and apply some superglue to all of the resistors. Wait for this to dry. A good super glue or epoxy can withstand the high temps, and will help combat the effects of gravity.

Once the super glue dried, I put it all back together and grinned a big grin as I realized the mega bucks I just saved myself.

Thanks for the posts guys! It helped me a ton.

 

I wonder if this may be the same thing I will be tackling here shortly. In fact I will go take a look see now.


Edit- Well my circuit board is fried, burn mark on the LED screen and some discoloring on the board its self. Oh well it was worth the try.