Transmission wont shift, speedometer not working

My van was doing the same thing about 1 yr ago. If is the same problem, The van will start up but will shut itself down. That is because the shut down relay is still engaged. I would sit places for 2-3 hours at a time before it would start. Its not hard to fix if it is the same problem. You will need to remove the screws for the dash on the drivers side. This will give you access to pull out the console the the gauges and everything is in. It is connected with wires on the back of the console. Pull the console out just a little and reach your hand back there and move the wires around. If your lights come on then, You Probably have a lose connection. Please let me know if this works for you. Good Luck!

Every once in awhile my instrument panel guages would all quit working then would flash on. One day the speedometer and odometer just quit and never came back on. Still the rest of the guages will flash off then on. Ever since the spedometer quit now my rpm will go to 4000rpms and only doing about 50mph. Seems as if though its not shifting. Replaced input and output vehicle speed sensors, body control module, transmission control module. No change. Speedometer not working still. Took to autozone had pluigged in and says bad ground or loose connection as the problem. But dont know where to look to find what wires it could be for speedometer. I am a female and not good with this stuff! Trying though! Could my instrument cluster be the problem? Or is there plug ins behind the panel (for the guages) that could of come loose or unplugged? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! :) Thank you!
Rachael

Electrical problem
1996 Dodge Caravan 6 cyl Automatic 140K miles

My '96 caravan with 140,000 miles has a weird problem with the speedometer. It'll work most of the time but after I've driven it a while, it will go down to zero, but I can keep driving. It'll start working again when I turn off the engine and let it sit for a while then start it back up again. And I just noticed on the interstate it'll wobble terribly, go down to zero, then when I keep pushing the gas pedal it'll get back up to where it should be. The cables are fine, I just had them looked at, what could be causing this problem! And also, sometimes my blinkers just decide to stop working, when they'd be perfectly fine the day before. I'm only a student so I can't afford to have these issues. =(

I was driving home at 55MPH when my speedometer stuck on 55 MPH my RPM guage was jumping from 2 to 7 thousand RPMs and my voltage guage kept jumping from 13 volts to 10 volts. My engine was operating just fine. When I shut the engine down and retatred the RPM Guage kept jumping from 1 to 7 thouand rpms at idiling speed and voltage guage jumped fom 13 vots to 10 and the speedometr does not work at all. Everything else is just fine. The van runs and drives just fine. Do I need to just replace the speed sensor? If so How difficult is it to do.

I have a 1995 Dodge Caravan I seem to be having some sort of electricla promblem. When traveling down the highway out of the blue my tachometer will start rapidly move up and down from 2 to 7 up and down. Then speedometer will stick at whatever speed I am traveling at. My volt/amp guage will rapidly jump up and down from 14 volts down to the bottom on 8 volts and back to 14 volts. This will continue untill I shut my engine off for a few minutes and restart. Then once I restart the engine the speedometer wil become unstuck and drop done to 0. Once I put it in gear and drive away everything is fine. Whenever this occurs I never have any check engine lights or service engine soon lights come on. No warnings whatsoever. It might be a week or even a month later till it does it again. Sometimes it may be three to six months. Also my cruise control does not work at all. I hardly ever use it maybe once a year when on a long trip. My Dodge Dealer said they cannot test if for I need to bring the vehicle it in when it is malfunctioning, but by the time it starts acting up and by the time I can get to the Dealer it stops for I have to shut the engine down and restart before I get an apointment set up with the dealership to bring it in. It always seems to happen when the dealership is not open or on a wekend. One mechanic I talked to over the internet chat room said it could be the transmission speed sensor another said it was the alternator. I had the engine completely tuned up and serviced at 125,000 and had the transmission oil and filter changed as well. The problem began before I had all this service done to it and continued after have the engine and transmission serviced.

My speedometer suddenly stopped working, it tried to go out a few times before, now it does not work at all. Needle laying on peg. Any suggestions on the problem?

I found both the speed sensors, and my Van is a LE, V6, 3.3 Litre, two wheel drive, I had to order the sensors and will update as soon as I change the Input and Output Sensors, thank you so much for your answer.

It shifts fine, no problem with that, the speedometer had been acting up once in awhile, then it just quit working, does my 1991 have a speedometer cable, some have suggested it does. Any info will be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.