my tach went crazy - need help

SVT3183

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my tach has always had intermittent issues, sometimes not working or sometimes just reading really low. today i take my car out and the needle is just sitting on the stop for like a half hour of driving doing absolutely nothing. i get on it and the needle jumps to about 5000 rpms and just freezes there. i get on it again and it goes all the way to the underside of the needle stop and is pressed there. now what is really weird is if i turn the car off it drops a little like just to the left of the trip odometer, so it is being held up under the stop when the car is running, but if i get on it the needle goes backwards (counterclockwise) to about 5000 rpms. how is this even possible?

is there any way to salvage this or do i need a new one?

is there anyway to get a tach without the whole cluster? a used cluster is 250 and a new one is almost 4 bills! i do not want an aftermarket monster tach. i have a cobra and need the white face gauge

the cluster seems simple enough to oull out. is it easy to change the individual gauges on the cluster?

thanks!
 
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