Dash Light Mod Success

nice! if anyone in manitoba is wanting this done I can do it for them but i live in brandon. just thought I would throw that out there

 

What did you use to paint your needles? Looks good.

 

BA mod, added to the already long "mods to do list"

 

I cant WAIT to start mine, I just ordered the lights. Wish Me luck!!!!!!

 

Maybe this could still be achieved with some strategic masking of the light pipe?
The LEDs for the tach are only arranged in a 90 degree area, so if you masked the light pipe so that it would only be letting in light from either led at the extremes, it seems like it would work.

I was going to try green and red so that the inbetween color would be yellow (seems appropriate)

 

Well... I tried to do the mod. Only about 50% of my lights actually turned on. I ordered 10 more of each color. THIS SUCKS!!!

 

Did you install them in the correct polarity orientation? A cheap $4 Harbor Freight multimeter with diode setting can be had to check the LED's before install. I have handled many thousands of LED's and found very few are bad from manufacture. Most problems arise from install error and incorrect soldering.

 

check your soldering

you might have burned some leds, but also I think some leds are in series, so one fails = more than one doesn't light up

 

Ya Im guessing I smoked a couple LEDs. Im not too worried, im not driving my yota till I get my tires and rims. Its just annoying, I thought I had more skill than that!!!

 

hey guys, any of you have any links of where to get some white or blue leds for the dash? and does anyone know what led's are in the steering wheel controls for the radio and bluetooth controls..
thx

 

here you go http://www.oznium.com/plcc-2

 

not sure about the steering wheel

 

do you happen to know how many of these I would need for the dash mod?

 

and in order to get blue needles do you have to replace the needles or is there an led that illuminated the needle?

 

http://www.unique-leds.com/

 

its just an LED to replace.

just make sure when u replace them the notch is in the right area to direct the right flow of circuitry (dont know if i spelled it right or if its even a word at all to be exact)

 

I think you only need ten in total to do just the guages with out the needles. But I would probably buy 20 of them just to be safe as some might not work and others may get burnt from the soldering iron.

 

always buy extra no matter what the exact number is u will need. ask adam (untamed SS) he knows ALLLLLLL about not orderin enough

 

you will also want to scratch the paint off the needles so that they are clear, that way they will take on whatever color the led is

 

killer-thx guys and hott fishnets!!