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On a vehicle that age you probably have insulation on wires that have rubbed through somewhere and are shorting to ground. Look for where the wires go through the firewall to the ECM
You probably need a new speedometer cable. It may be too old of a car to try and find one from a salvager. They periodically send the older cars to be crushed.
The cables have been known to break apart after many years of service. It is connected at the transmission and behind the instrument cluster. You have to pull the cluster out part way and reach behind to unclip the cable from the back of the speedometer housing.
Its either your speedometer or your speedometer cable. If it's these you will have to either have your speedometer gauge rebuilt or buy a whole new unit because they have to be re- calibrated. And if it's your speedometer cable I would also have a mechanic fix it. The cable is cheap but the gauges you can't fix on your own. So most places rebuild them and it's around $90-180.00 to rebuild them and they have to take the whole cluster gauges out all of them in the unit and they will usually replace burned out bulbs and fix the plastic gears in the gauges these are what usually fails before the speedometer cable. Good Luck!
You definitely don't need a kickdown cable, the kickdown is for the auto transmission, you may just need a new gauge cluster. also the cable you got from autozone could be a universal cable thats why it doesn't look the same, or it could just be a wrong cable, try napa.
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