gear indicator wire BROKEN please help.

[expo5.0]

alright, today i parked the x and when i shifted into park i heard a snap and the little red indicator thing went all the way to the right instead of going into park as it should have. so what happened? i'm assuming that the wire from the gear selector arm to the gear indicator thing snapped! is this plausible? i don't really want to take it apart right now to check (and there aren't any parts stores open anywhere either) so it wouldn't really get me anywhere anywho. has this happened to anyone else?


finally, i have white faced gauges, but the indicator thing doesn't match them because it wasn't replaced with the gauges. does anyone see a reason i couldn't replace it (assuming this is the problem) with one from a 01 sport or sport trac or something that does have the white faced gauges so it matches? or for that matter could i swap the whole gauge cluster from one of those sports or sport tracs into my truck??? my white faced gauges are the ebay ones and it would look better if i got the real ford ones so i'm wondering if i could use this as an excuse to do the whole swap??? will it work

 

[section525]

Expo.. those gauges are a direct bolt in. I'm going to do the same mod sometime in the future as well. You better not be bidding on the Sport Trac stuff I'm watching!

 

[expo5.0]

well, i sure haven't been bidding yet lol. i broke the damn thing less than an hour ago! i'm glad to hear the gauges are a direct bolt on. BUT do they include the gear indicator with the gauge clusters??? i bet they usually do right?

one more question too, how does the gear indicator work? is it just a wire that is connected to the end of the arm that is in the steering wheel stalk? will it be fairly easy to swap to a new wire and gear indicator? anyone had the dash apart to this point before??? i haven't gone beyond installing gauges a few times and i never thought about working on this stuff when i did that.