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Old Jun 3, 2017 | 01:33 PM
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How to tell what year an Instrument cluster is

How can you tell what year a cluster is?

The Mice have chewed the tags off of all of my spare clusters. Now I am trying to ID them
 
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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 01:23 AM
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'92-93 units differ from '94 & up. Speedo/odo units are the same from '92 up. There should be a number stamped into the printed circuit which would help you ID which year the unit is from. '94 & up have the circuit for the anti theft module (even if your truck does not have the feature).
 
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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 12:07 PM
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I am pretty sure there are 3 different eras of clusters..

92/93
94/95
96/97
 
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Old Jun 4, 2017 | 05:48 PM
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I HAD photos of the different cluster's. But cannot not locate them on my HDD or backups now.....wonder what else is lost.

I got them off the web a few years back. They were very helpfull in figuring out the cluster swap years.

I rember date codes on the PCB on back of them. F2xx-xxx for the 92/93 years. F4xx-xxx for the 94/95. Something like that.

Take a photo and post them, I could match yours to the ones I have.
 
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Old Jun 5, 2017 | 08:51 AM
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All the ones I've looked at had the year etched in the PCB. Though I've wondered how much they overlapped on model years and does that year code match the date on the sticker?

I've wanted to put a tach cluster in my '95 but just haven't spent the money yet. I want to pull my dash and see what date it actually has.
 
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Old Jun 5, 2017 | 04:45 PM
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All the ones I've looked at had the year etched in the PCB. Though I've wondered how much they overlapped on model years and does that year code match the date on the sticker?

I've wanted to put a tach cluster in my '95 but just haven't spent the money yet. I want to pull my dash and see what date it actually has.
PCB?????????
 
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Originally Posted by Diesel_Brad
PCB?????????

Its the plastic encased wiring on the cluster back side.

There are part numbers on them but not accurate sometimes. The PCB may have been designed in 92 and carries a F2xx-xxxx part number, but may be designed for a 94 truck.

Still looking for those photos......
 
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PCB = Printed Circuit Board
 
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Back of cluster on printed circuit board:



This is 1992 dated.

My question is how correct are they and with model year changes do they carry over at all? A few? Not at all? Depends on when truck was built?
 
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