[fastfredracing]

I had a 2005 explorer come in last week with the odometer and information display out. I had diagnosed it this past summer , I knew that all the circuts to the cluster were working.
I pulled the cluster out last monday, and before shipping it off to the rebuilder, I opened it up, to look for any obvious signs of cold flow solder joints failing. I had recently repaired one on a 2004, and it was easy peasy. This one was much more complex when I opened it up, and after looking for 30 minutes or so, I said " this is one for the pro's " and mailed it off to my rebuilder.
He calls me back and says that there is nothing wrong with it, it works perfectly . He said that he threw every test at it that he could think of , including heating it , and cooling it.
I did touch and manipulate all the connectors, and solder joints that I thought that would have been relevant to the LCD's functioning, and somehow must have gotten lucky, because I just re-installed it, and it is working 100%.