So on my way home today from my work I stopped and filled up with gas and reset my trip and when I got home 20 miles later I noticed my trip only said 1 miles so It stopped working. How do I fix this?

 

The regular odometer is not working niether

 

What year is your truck? There are specific quirks for '97-'98 and '99-'03 models:

The '97-98 ones use a worm gear (a repair kit DOES exist - if you're willing to take the cluster completely apart to replace the plastic sprocket).

The '99 and up use a digital ODO, which is prone to going blank due to a cold solder joint, requiring resoldering one or more contact pins on the cluster printed circuit board.

In either case, you'll need to remove the dash panels, and then the cluster, depending on the year of your truck. Good news is that many on this forum have made these repairs (search on some of the previous Odometer threads).

 

Knowing that you said it stopped on 1, I have reasons to believe you own a '97 or '98. As warspite said, you basically have a stripped out plastic sprocket/gear. Fairly common, and they do take out both Odometer and Tripomter. 2 options:

1. Tear the cluster down and repair the stripped gear. Be forewarned as people have reported some of the gauges not working after the repair, so be verrry careful when you do this. If one or more of the gauges become inop, option #2 must be used then.

2. Get a new/used cluster. '97 and '98 didn't have PATS yet, so its the definition of plug and play with swapping out the clusters. The downside is that IF you do ever sell the truck, unless you changed the mileage on the replacement cluster to match the bad cluster, you MUST sell the truck TMU (True Miles Unknown).

Either way, those are your only options. Though if I were you, I'd order a new gauge face to spruce up the cluster since you ARE gonna be taking it out, uknowwutimsayin'?

 

I'm one to attest to the gauges stop working after the worm gear swap. I messed something up somehow and had to get a new, used instrument cluster from a junkyard for $50. They do plug right in with no other problems. However you do not know how long the worm gear will work in the junkyard one. My junkyard one went out in 4 months.

Another option you have is you can find a shop to rebuild them, which I ended up doing on the junkyard one since I had a warranty being based off of the mileage. This is a more expensive option, but will be basically brand new again.

 

I'm going to talk to some shops today. The one I already talked to said $140 does that sound right? Do you guys know of any places in St. Louis?

 

Thats a lot. In your specific case anyway. You'd spend less going to a junkyard and getting a used cluster. It's cheaper, yet the more expensive option than just replacing the gear.

 

That's cheaper then what I paid to get mine rebuilt. You can try your luck at a junk yard but there is no way to know how long that one will last. the gear itself wasn't too hard to changed out, I just messed my circuit board up somewhere, you could always try yourself and save you 120+ bucks