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Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:45 pm
by RusTy Max
So I came from the tuner/import world over to the mini trucking world. I hated the backlight on my non tach cluster... so recently I accuired a sport cluster w/tach.
I noticed that the bulbs were easy to remove and had a green 'cover' over the bulbs. I brought some of my 'tuner' skills over and decided to replace these dim crappy bulbs with some nice bright LED bulbs, in green of course! (WLEDx5) So I popped them in the cluster and did the install... no onto the pics... (sorry for the crappy pics, cell phone)
CLUSTER ILLUMINATED W/ OLD BULBS & COVERS:

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Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

Posted:
Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:36 pm
by Ramit
Sweet! I like it. My old 83 is dimmer than hell, that gives me some ideas. Thanks.
Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:08 pm
by RusTy Max
They are super BRIGHT... you can get them in just about any color... I used to have some in 'BLUE' in my cavalier.

Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:58 am
by dmr8x2
do you have the web site where you got your new bulbs
and what was the correct part # and quantity
thanks
Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:56 pm
by beachrat92
That looks good. i was thinking about doing some thing like that to my truck. how do you put them into the little sockets and do you have to put a resistor in them. i no that leds need less power.
thank
Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:55 pm
by FordTruckMan
So I tried this, with blue lights and it doesn't work in the mighty max with blue. You gotta do it in green I guess because the guage face itself appears to be green. So unless anyone knows how to fix that I guess I'm gonna have to run green. Since my truck is gonna be blue I wanted to do blue lighting but oh well.
Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:07 pm
by DroppedMitsu
I put blue LEDs in my cluster and it shows up just fine, no green to it, and thats both a tach and no-tach cluster. Ask minimitz he's seen it
Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:57 pm
by FordTruckMan
Well I didnt use LED's maybe that makes a difference. I did use blue tinted lights and it showed up green which tells me I have some green tint to it. I dont want to get LED's if its not going to make a difference.
Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:44 am
by pennyman1
1st gen clusters have green filters over the light holes, so to change it , remove the cluster and take out the green covers. That should solve the green tint problem. You will have to remove the gauges from the clusters to access the green covers.
Re: Fixing that CLUSTER lighting problem! LED's

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Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:07 am
by paullen
I fitted red LEDs and it lights up nice and red.