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Ok, I've used the search and found nothing that helps me so I'm gonna post again with some new information and problems.

The car is a 2002 civic LX. Has less than 50k miles. About 6 months ago maybe the insturment cluster odometer reads all 888888's, the gas guage, battery guage, RPM, and speedometer stop working. If you place your hand up over the cluster area and smack it, sometimes it will come back on to normal (but the gas guage is still funny) OR it just stays the same. Turning the car off and on sometimes fixes it but usually not. Doesn't matter if it's day or night, lights on or off, rain or shine it still happens.

I checked connections to the battery and the ground wire that goes from the engine to the block that is located near the radiator. I even sanded the paint away from that ground and tried it. I couldn't locate any other grounds besides the obvious ones on top of the motor. I am lost at this point.

I have a spare cluster but don't want to go through the trouble of putting it in if I can fix the problem as is. I know there is a cable behind the intake box (never looked, don't really know where it is) but that's my last try.

Just wondering if anyone has had this happen to them OR any ideas on how to fix this?

 
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When you say you can smack it and get it to come back, that is typical of a loose connection somewhere. I would start by removing the cluster and re-seat (remove and reconnect) the clusters connectors as a start.

If they are the same clusters the swap will be easy.

 
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what he said, and if you have a spare cluster, just throw it in to check if its not a faulty cluster. It takes 30 seconds to swap clusters unless your going to an diff yr where you need to swap out pins. From the sounds of it, it does seem like you have loose pin(s) in your connectors to the cluster.