BEAMS gauges in celica GT Options

[match220]

Hey guys,
I bought some BEAMS gauges a while back to put in my celica to take advantage of the tach signal from the ECU (i'm running engine management and no distributor). I heard these were a direct swap, but my fuel gauge isn't working when I put them in. I waited a couple minutes and the gauge didn't climb with the ignition switch turned. Can someone verify that these gauges work in this car?

This post has been edited by match220: Jun 16, 2014 - 6:06 AM

[njccmd2002]

i dont know why you are having such a hard time...

did the swap of the tach and the fuel

easy as take the black out



mix and match



and swap them in again



i got them working.

[match220]

i dont know why you are having such a hard time...

did the swap of the tach and the fuel

easy as take the black out



mix and match



and swap them in again



i got them working.

I know that I can do it that way. I just can't do it that way with the BEAMS A/T gauges. Like I mentioned in the first post, I'll be taking advantage of the shift indicator lights in the A/T gauges and using them for custom indicator lights instead of how they were intended to be used. I've already mapped out the circuit board for the A/T shift indicator controller. I can't put the A/T light board in the ST204 gauges. I decided to repin the whole cluster so I could put it in. Mostly everything works, the pins are a direct swap. I just need to see why the battery indicator light doesn't work. It isn't that i'm "having a hard time" it's just a long process of mapping out the circuitboards (finished) and then repinning it (finished). As long as the battery still charges I could care less if the battery light comes on or not, I'll see if I can figure it out since other people may want to do what I did. Initially I didn't know that I had to swap the individual gauges for them to work, I was told by a few people that they are "a direct swap". My understanding of that was that I could plug in the whole cluster, which is not the case. Now I know.

I should note that I also did this because of the similarities between the GTFour cluster and the BEAMS cluster. Repin is the same once it is done. So the GTFour gauges can be used to take advantage of the turbo spool gauge (considering you can mimic the wiring off the MAP sensor before it connects to the gauges). This is great considering you can't take out the GTFour temp/fuel/turbo gauge set and put it in the other clusters. With the repin we can use the spool gauge.