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Pull your negative battery cable for 30 min see if it resets your sytem. Guages should jump up and drop back then work perfectly. Had to do this with my 2005 monte carlo
For everyone having the problem of a dead speedometer and odometer not racking up miles but EVERYTHING else works. I had the same issue and I went on for hours researching to no end. Everyone said if the VSS is reading in a scan tool, the VSS is fine and it's either wiring on your cluster. WRONG. In the scan tool, the vehicle speed is being populated by the ABS wheel speed sensors, it is NOT reading the VSS directly even though it may use those exact words. Remove the hose between the intake and the air box and look down left under a coolant hose on top of the trans, the sensor is right there held in by one 10MM bolt (use a few extensions and a swivel). When I tried to disconnect the plug, the sensor pulled apart in two pieces. The inside where the spring makes contact was green. I pulled the plug out and the female end was green and corroded as well as the 3 prongs on the male end. Advance Auto sells a replacement pigtail for $10, it's only 3 wires (pink (12v+), black (12v-) and orange/green (pulse wire to speedometer in cluster). Splice them in order, install new sensor and BOOM everything worked again. Do not replace your cluster, do not listen to your scan tool, and no the car does not need to be showing a CEL or code if the VSS is bad, trust me. Hours and hours and hours of research it was simply the $70 VSS and a $10 plug end! Worst case if you have a pulse wire issue somewhere between there and the cluster, you can splice in a new wire on the orange/green and run it through the firewall to the back of the cluster. There are 3 plugs in the back, looking at the cluster from the FRONT gauges, the far left plug, top row, 5th wire in from the left is the other end of that orange/green even though it may show as different there. You can jump around and splice in there as well!
A broken cable will have neither the odometer or the speedometer working. If your speedometer is working, then the odometer gears in the dash have stripped or come loose, and should be replaced. If the cable needs replacing, pull the cluster out of the dash and unclip the cable end from the speedometer, and unscrew the bottom fitting of cable from the transaxle.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Are you saying you removed or lowered the steering column? If you did that, and the speedometer/odometer stopped working, it's most likely because the speedometer cable either somehow got broken or it came unplugged from the back of the instrument cluster. Go under the dash, and see if you can reach the speedometer cable. If you can, make sure it fully plugged into the cluster. If it is fully installed, push the metal tab holding the cable in place, and remove the cable. Try turning the cable, does it turn freely? It should. Then try pulling the cable itself out of the sheath, if it pulls out easily, it's probably broken somewhere in the middle.
Sounds like either your speedometer cable, your nylon gear on the side of the tranny where the cable ties in, or the odometer itself is shot. One of those three will set you straight. If you are able, remove the cluster, take the cable off the back, and pull it out of the sheath. You will see if its broken or not from there. If not, slide it back into the sheath, then you have to find out where the sheath meets the tranny, and pull it off of there. Then, you can get someone else to watch the speedo as you turn the cable from the bottom. If it works, great, if not, then its your cluster/odometer/speedo. If it does work, the small gear in the transmission is shot.
Since your speedometers work, the problem is in the gearing to the trip and mileage odometers. Simple problem, major pain to fix but, remove instrument cluster - you'll have to remove speedo cable to get it out. Use the old Mark I eyeball to check for broken parts. Might even have to drop steering column - disconnect air bag first!
Check the speed sensor in the transmission.
Being a 95 it might still be cable driven. Disconnect the cable from the transmission and hook a drill to it. Spin it and see if it registers. If it does, the gear going into the tranny is broken, if it doesn't the cable is probably broken.
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