This works and takes very little time. Did it on my lunch break today lol. Great write up. Check very close i could barley see hairline cracks in the sotter joints

 

If anyone is missing a resistor simply solder whwere the ends meet with a piece of wire or more solder. It will work without the resistor

 

don't know how I feel about that. I would just go pick up the cheap surface mount resistor. Just because it works doesn't mean you should.

 

Simple understanding of physics. If you know triple 5 timers and microprocessors the joint at hand is a mere threshold of the voltage. Sure a resistor is the best method, but with the circuitry soldering will work on that one joint.

 

Me and my brother tried this twice... The first time it worked for like 3 days... Then it took a dump again. So I bought some solder ( first stuff I later found out literally turned to dust ) anyways... We tried for a good 3 hours trying to disconnect the compass from the roof. ( 2nd attempt at this ) and it wouldn't budge... Idk what went wrong. I doubt it's in backwards. So we ended up re soldering it in the truck... Nothing. I think we fried the circuit board we couldn't even fix that I guess we have to search for a display for a 2003 Ford F-150 SuperCrew King Ranch with auto climate ( only shows direction on the overhead display ) along with getting the jammed connector unhooked.. Can my luck get any worse with trying to fix something?

 

thanks for all the good info. Yesterday I changed my rear brakes. Today I replaced the resistor plate for the fan blower motor,and adjusted the needle indicator for my shifting
lever .Now I'm moving on to the compass -temp. digital display.

 

Thanks 00Bigred, your pictures and description helped me fix my overhead Compass / Temp display in my 2000, f150. It took more time to go to the store and buy a soldering iron than to do the repair.

 

Thanks to this thread I got the overhead console working. 3 broken resistor joints. Its a 2003 Xl model so if 1 thing does not work half my option package is out.

 

DO NOT DO THIS WILL BURN OUT DISPLAY OVER TIME.



No Do Not just solder across in place of a resistor ever. Just remove both 510 resistors and replace with a 1/4 watt 25.5 ohm resistor those 2 original resistors are in parallel to lower resistance and they used 2 to reduce heat on them. But 1 regular 1/4 watt 25.5 ohm will work and just solder surface mount with the legs bent to solder across in place of 1 of the originals.