Cluster ground comes through a pin on the harness plug. See Bentley, and check for any resistance to ground. You can carefully clean and adjust the connectors too, but I’m guessing it’s a bad ground at the star connector under the dash above the fuse panel.

Stuart

> On Aug 8, 2018, at 5:36 PM, Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> sorry... it was NOT better, same behavior as the original one....
> 
> thanks
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 5:09 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8 Aug , 2018, at 5:52 PM, Dan N wrote:
>>> 
>>> - swap a good instrument cluster from a running van
>> 
>>        You didn't say if that was any better ~
>>