Austin's Build Thread

Check out the vendor section. depends on what you want. plate or tube bumper

 

alright haha

 

painted my gauge needles with some needle paint, and changed to white leds in the gauge

 

How much did the LEDs cost you if you dont mind me asking

 

25 bucks + shipping, so around 27 i believe

You can get all different colors

 

Thats pretty cheap. How hard was it to do?

 

its just time consuming, its pretty easy if you have already done it once.

I had to call Austin and ask him lol, he's a good little bitch

Take rubbing alcohol to the needles to get the old paint off with a q tip, the only actual hard part is taking the dash off and resetting your coolant temp needles and gas needles

**EDIT**
To do just the lights is really simple, its when you do the needles that it gets hard

 

Lmao, "hes a good little bitch"

How do you reset the needles? Also, did you do just the dash lights or did you do the ones for the climate controls too?

 

you just put the RPM and SPEEDO ones on in the 0 position, the temp you go drive your truck till you think its at operating temp and then slide the needle to the middle position with the truck running. Gas, well i just went and filled up and put it on in the full position at the gas station

I did just the dash... I didnt even realise that the climate control had a light... so when i had it all apart i just put a light from autozone in, ill be ordering a led one soon lol

 

Couldnt I set the temp one when my truck is cold? probably wont be driving it without a dash lol. What about the clock light?

 

the clock light is part of the board for the clock, no way to change the color unless you could find one with white lights

 

Thats gay. Might as well just pull the plug on the clock since you cant even see it when driving

 

I know the hilux ones are orange... but i cant find one with white lights

 

Hahahah you fucker! the other austin needs to get LED's next, and then paint his needles like green or something lol

 

I want blue LEDs and blue needles

 

Dang I gotta get around to doing those leds. Just wondering how much can you dim them? I don't want blinding light emitting from the speedo at night.

 

LMAO! Another Austin with a 96 Taco!
Edit: My bad. Your name is Austen

 

Haha its close enough to the normal spelling. But yeah we got a nice little trend going here

 

Fuck yea!

 

FUCK! Thats 4 of us now.. Lmao aust(i)(e)ns are taking over tw ha but you can dim the LED's by the way! So you should be good