hi everyone...

So after pulling my hair out for weeks trying to figure out why my instrument cluster kept dying, reading posts from people who spent hundreds of dollars replacing computer modules etc, I finnaly found that at the back of the instrument cluster, where the main connector goes, there was a tiiiny little crack in the solder for the main ground wire, one touch with a hot soldering iron and its all fixed...
thanks to everyone for info and all..
hope this post helps someone else and saves them some money
mahalo
hanikai