hey guys im convertin my guages over to led but i cant figure out how to seperate the lil plastic piece in the needles to remove the orange and im afraid i might brake em, so if anyone knows how to seperate them plz lemme no its the only thing thats stopping me...

 

If it's anything like the tC1 swap then you have to cut the little plastic piece to dis-assemble and then super glue it back together when you'r finished stripping the orange.

 

^ He's right.

I did it a little different, but it's not hard. When you pull the needles off and look at the underside, you'll see 2 plastic nubs. Those are what are holding the needle together. I just used tweezers to squish the nubs until the back popped off. I swapped the color and popped the back on again. I didn't use any glue and the needle stays together just fine.

 

Cool thanks for the help

 

don't mean to thread jack, but since u got ur answer...maybe we can repurpose this thread so i dont have to make a new one...

does anyone have a photo of all the lights on the gauge? i want to get an idea of what colors i would want to change on the indicators lights

 

Ill post some when im done I did my guages white ut where my rps redline I did the led red and my indicators blue and thw needles blue

 

Look at my thread GAUGES!!!!. There are a few different pics in there of led swaps done on the tc2.

 

Ok so everythins done and for some reason the only led that works is my high beam... Any ideas where I migjta gone wrong?

 

LEDs installed backward, bad solder joint...

 

The solders are good for the most part but backwards? Im a retard when it comes to electrical, im was under the impression there was no right or wrong way to put em

 

There should be a small notch in the corner of the led, put them on the same way they came off.

 

Ok thaats what I thought but someone said they should all face down even though stock was up

 

no, thats a polarity mark. a LED is a diode so it only allows flow of current one way. i think they were all in the upper right hand corner when i did mine, i took a lot of pictures so if you cant figure out the polarity, i can send those to you.

 

Ok that makes more sence thatnks for ur help

 

Bloodborn did a very good write up on this.

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=200646

 

I just pulled out my gauge cluster and have it mostly disassembled, but I'm having a problem trying to get the needles/***** off. Bloodborn's write up says to pull up but when I do so they do not pop off. It's possibly that I'm not pulling hard enough but I'm fairly confident they should have come off with the amount of force I applied. I don't want to do any damage. Do they have to be in a certain position to come off? They are all zeroed and the cluster is flat. I'm pulling directly up but they are stuck on there pretty well.

It's a 2012 tc.

Thanks in advance.

 

Pull hard as all hell I was scares to brake em to but just pull hard

 

thanks I'll give it a try

 

i have a pair of angled tweezers i like to use to pry those needles off..

but yeah... they come right off. just make sure and pull straight outwards.

 

I got them off and the soldering went smoothly, I now have blue gauge lights. Thanks for all the help. I do, however, want to change those orange strips on the needles to make them blue (or green or white). I couldn't figure out how to get them off though, has anyone done this?