Change gauge lighting??

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Apr 29, 2005 | 03:16 PM

thepixi

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From: Plano, Tx

Change gauge lighting??

Is it possible to change the bulbs in the gauges? I took the pod apart, and it looks like they may be indiglo.

Apr 30, 2005 | 12:42 AM

kre8

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From: Lake Mary, FL

Besides you adding a differen color background to your gauge there are 2 other ways I know of changing your color. After you take your gauge out take off the clear cover then the black cover that holds the clear cover. You will have to pull off your needles very carefully. Oh yeah make sure you remember where your needles go back because otherwise your needles are gonna be off. I still haven't calibrated my gas needle i'm 1/4 of a tank off. Well after you take them off with either a Flat head screw driver U can pull off the guage face. Under there is gonna be another clear plastic piece you can pull that off I think there are 4 led's in there one that is the amber gas light which u don't want to color and the other 3 that u can color. I used a sharpie but for sum reason it didn't last to long. Once I get to work i'll post a pic up of what it looks like after it was colored.

Apr 30, 2005 | 01:04 AM

engifineer

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My LEDs are arriving Monday (at least thats what they said). You can get them here:

http://www.lc-led.com/Products/department/5

They are surface mount, so your will need to be a little experienced with soldering. There is a how to somewhere here from someone else that has done it. I plan on doing all the gauges, some of the indicators and the odometer backlight, which I believe is around 14 LEDs if I remember correctly.

The console is designed a little diffferently, so I (or one of the others getting ready to do it) will be figuring out the right components to replace to make the same LEDs work there as well (I have 30 of them coming). I will post the correct values for that once I get the LEDs and have time to go through it. I believe ScionDad and one other are planning on figuring this one out as well. The same ones will work there, but a couple of them are a little dim from what I hear. The guage lights look perfect though!

Maybe a little more info than you asked for, but I thought I would throw it in since you wanted to do the gauges.