Ok have completed the mod. All Leds on left side and clock are great!, also the last two on the right side are fine as well. Yet D311 & D312 are not working. I had them working upon orginal completion but now they aren't. Tried changing LED's and also verified all soldering points. Any sugguestions? I will post a pic of the right side tonight if this helps.

 

well i have mine partially done. the LEDs for the tach aren't lighting up for some reason so i have to re open that and find out whats going on with that. I also notice that it seems the right 3rd portion of the center console screen isn't lighting up so i have to check into that as well.

 

Make sure you have the jumpers and resistors attached to the correct LEDs JQ. It sounds to me like you forgot the wire jumper between the right side of the 2nd and 3rd LED down on the right side. This provides the ground for the top two LEDs on the right since cutting that trace disconnects those two. Check to make sure you added that jumper.

 

I made sure that I did that orginally. At first they where weak, then out, now they are back to weak. I have checked all solding on the right side includeing the 330 resister. I am confusted. Here is a pic. any other sugguestions? errr!

 

It is hard to tell by the pic, but I think there may be two issues. The first wont cause them not to work, but should be changed so everything matches. The resistor you have connected to D313 (the one bent at a 90 degree angle and soldered to the longer resistor lead) appears to be a 330 Ohm. This should be a 680 Ohm. The only 330s are the ones that replace the three surface mount resistors you have to swap out. The other three are 680's.

Now again, it is hard to see from there , but it looks like you have the resistor that is connected to D316 attached on the upper lead of the resistor at the top of the picture (this should be a 330 ohm, the one you swapped for the surface mount). This should be attached to the bottom leg of that resistor looking at it from the viewpoint of the picture. A couple more things to check out.

 

Nice eye's!!! I didn't even notice that I was connected to the wrong side of the 330. By simply moving the 680 lead to the side NOT going to D311, all is FIXED!!! Bright blue!
Now I have to go and cut the the housing so it fits.
THANKS!!

 

No problem, enjoy!

 

I had a quick question, i was looking around online for a place to be able to buy these resistors, was able to find 2 site but each one wanted a mini buy of like 300. Has anyone found a site that has the resistos with a normal buying of like 6 (i want a few spares incase)? Or any tips as to where i can find, if not i will try to hit up radio shack this week. Thanks

 

digikey.com

 

I just went to the local Radio Shack and found all the resistors needed to complete the mod at 1/8 and hook-up wire. This cost all of about 7 to 8 dollars. That is where I would start.

 

thats hot man, you are the ____! I am moving into a new place, and i am getting married next month, so one day engifineer, one day i will send my gauges off to you! LOL when you got married didja ever feel like you were never goin to be able to buy another car part ever again.....lol

 

i go through that on a daily basis with just about everything! so you better get used to it. unless you wife is cool! im sure you'll have no probs.

 

yeah shes cool, but for now i am on a tight budget...i gotta get cable and a nice tv or i might go crazy....are you in Pensacola? I just went there staurday night...

 

Engifineer, is it possible to use wrapping wire for this mod to avoid having to shave down any buttons?

 

what website can i order the led's from

 

alot of info on this. Try reading through this forum or using the search.
Here
Is the forum I posted on the site to buy along with type and also walktrought on the install.
GoodLuck!

 

Did this mod today... I used fine wrapping wire, but it doesn't spare you anything The resistors are still too big for the button housings to fit over, so you still need to cut. But like engifineer said, it's really soft plastic and easy to do (and more importantly, the cutting part is hard to screw up lol)

My all-white console looks terrific now! Another happy customer.

 

hmm. i just kinda stuff it in... i don't really cut the plastic much.. hmm... ehh.. it works..

 

I guess it depends on the resistors you get. enginfineer gets the good SMT ones. Ridiculous Shack doesn't have those, so they're kinda big.

I suppose you COULD wire the resistors so they're out of the button housings' way, but that'd just increase your trace length. But yeah, ehh, it works.

I may start doing these locally here in NJ or as mail-swaps. I found a junkyard that had 2 sets of HVAC control units and he gave 'em to me for $75 each - both intact.

I suppose I could do the work and cross ship them to people willing to pay to have the work done.

Of course if I did that, i'd have to toss engifineer a percentage of each sale It'd only be fair. We wouldn't have this fix if it wasn't for him.

 

For those of you who wanted full size front and back shots, here you go:

I circled R306 on the back since it drove me batty trying trying to find it lol

Click images for full size ones.