bubba211

the previous owner totally screwed up the illumination light in my cluster. i guess they didn't work, so he ran a bunch of new wire, cut this, cut that, splce this, splice that, but it still doesn't work. SO i'm gonna run a completly NEW system. WILL this WORK: (i drew a picture diagram for fun

rotor vs. piston

You shouldn't have to ground the toggle.

bubba211

oh, allright, even better, but what power source do you think is best, i hate to splice into just anything

rotor vs. piston

There should be a fuse labeled illum (i think) or something to the same effect. You could wire staight to that if your trying to bypass the stalk switch.

82transam

iTrader: (18)

why not just try to restore the wiring back to what it should be, as opposed to running more stuff? i might be misreading this, if so, then sorry.

bubba211

i restored the original wire, and everything is perfet, cept on thing, my dimmer is shot. 3RD ONE i've ben through, i was going to just simplt replace the dimmerwith a toggle of some sort. BUT my "mechanic" neighbor said this would cause some over heating and mybe melting because the dimmer has a built in regulator/something the "calms" the electricity flow down. Is this true? anyone else NOT recommend replacing this with a toggle??

metalliman

It wouldn't hurt to put a toggle switch in as a replacement for the dimmer. The dimmer gets so hot because it's basically a variable resistor, and all resistors get hot. A toggle switch doesn't act as a resistor, simply a mechanical "connect", or "disconnect", so it shouldn't even get hot. As for the regulator part, I really don't know, but if you want you can buy a capacitor from radio shack, and hook it up in parallel. That will act as a regulator, wouldn't think it to be necessary though.

82transam

iTrader: (18)

You should be able to put a switch there. I don't see why not. You could always just connect the wires directly to each other and eliminate the whole thing. Of course then you would have a hole in the dash to fill....