Gauge Mod!!
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if anyone want my guage setup im willing to sell the bulb to you, or you can send me your cluster, i'll change the bulb and modify the pannel for you so you have white led.. im thinking about going blue to back to red. PM me if your intrested, remember the bulbs are about 50 bucks plus labor, it wont be to much but dont lowball me.
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Here is mine, not that hard and if you move the needle to full right and mark it then when you reinstall the needle it will be right on. My Greddy boost gauge was acting up so i put an autometer peak/warn electric on in and put the same white led behind it, looks good, now i just gotta get a autometer EGT to match.
Azcamel, do you have any more pictures of it illuminated at night? yours seems to be the "ice blue" color. I was wanting to do either the darker blue like the newer VWs, or green like the greddy gauges.
did you use the inverted cone LEDs? How is the light disbursement?
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even though the LED spread the light it still has minor hot spot, its due to the placement of the bulb or lack of bulbs. if you look at the coolant guage you will notice that it is slightly brighter at the top then the bottom, same for the fuel gauge. The tach and speedo is more equaly because fo the large light scatter plate in the back, its still varies a bit but not as bad.
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Hey this might sound obvious but I've never removed the cluster. I'm planning to do this to my '93, but I want to get rid of all the red in the tach, like from 7.5k to 9k. Possible to make the whole tach white?
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I have my cluster just about out, all of the connections disconnected cleanly. But how do I remove the cigarette lighter part? I can't figure it out. There's no clip and you can't just remove the whole part.
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Thanks! I just gave the plastic part a more deliberate pull and it came right off.
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I have the gauge cluster out and I took off the fuel gauge face. The back of it has no orange, only green with white dots. The other gauges appear the same way. What orange am I supposed to scratch off?
sorry about the bad cameraphone pics, my G9 is broke =\
sorry about the bad cameraphone pics, my G9 is broke =\
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Oh man, I held an LED up to the backing and found all of it was orange. Sorry for sounding so stupid, I guess I should have taken off any gauge but the fuel one first.
thanks! maybe now I can finish this damn mod. haha
I need 7 of the chip-looking LEDs?
thanks! maybe now I can finish this damn mod. haha
I need 7 of the chip-looking LEDs?