On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 03:51 -0700, Stephen Grisanti wrote:

> Incidentally, if you pull your instrument cluster to send off the a
>  vendor for repair or just to let it languish on your bench until you
>  get around to working on it, the van will run fine without it.  At
>  least my '87 does.

That  . . . that sounds really weird. But it makes sense, I guess. The
van doesn't "know" if the cluster is present, the cluster only displays
things that are going on with the van. I reckon a GPS would stand in
quite nicely for the missing speedo.
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Rocky J Squirrel