Guage swap question...

Aloha peeps! After perusing the forums about LED swaps on guages I am wanting to swap out the existing LEDs for blue. I also want change the needles to white. However, I think I will end up destroying something in the process. I am wondering if it is possible to purchase the boards with my desired LEDs already installed. Any help will be appreciated! Mahalo!

 

no, but you can ship your board to me and i'll swap them out if you want (truck can be driven w/o the cluster). see my sig...

 

I am thinking about doing this job myself... after a soldering tutorial by one of my electronics repair buddies. I appreciate you gettin' back to me though. I am trying to find white needles to replace the existing ones but I am having a hard time finding anyone who will ship them to Hawaii.

 

Take the needles that are on now, get some nail polish remover and soak then and rub the orange off. Then go out and get some white acrylic paint and paint them white.

 

but only the backside and only as much as the OEM needles were painted before. if you do it too much, the paint will block the lighting for the needle and they will be very dim. (had a dude do this and I had to fix it for him). if you look at the needles, you can see a 45* reflector in the needle base that the light bounces off of and goes down the needle. if you block that, the light will not travel down the needle as well.

 

Thanks guys! I appreciate the heads up!