cloud of smoke.
you let the smoke out because rule one was not done
remove neg, battery lug first
cars have powerfeeds all over that are hot, key off.
like head lights that is how they work key off
and the clusters, on jeeps have brain, that store data in memory.
this memory is hot all the time. (mine has 3 power feeds in my cluster)
so you you shorted this line , you did in fact burn something up.
that smoke was destruction.
why is a dealer all you know, there are like 100,000 shops in usa not a dealer, check out find ASE shop by ZIP
hark./ all highly trained.
did you scan the pcm to see what errors you have.
or test fuse? yes, test them.
fuses that bad , are bad, (boom)
fuse that seem ok, can be bad, called HAIR line crackes, some are deeply hidden in the fuse. we test them
did you run the cluster self test stated in the free manual>?
posted WK fsm
300 + times
here it is one more time
http://www.morris4x4center.com/knowledge-base/index.htm?utm_source=cj#service
RTM read the manual first then leap. and win.