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Oct 19, 2010 | 04:11 PM

supercabfreak

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dim dash lights

the instrument lights in my 76 are fairly dim. when im driveing through town at night i can barely see the cluster. ive checked for shorts and bad wireing ive also replaced all the bulbs with what my ownersmanual says should be in it im planning on installing a tach and i dont want the tach to overpower the instrument cluster any ideas?

Oct 19, 2010 | 04:48 PM

70 Bronco TX

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I'm going to state the somewhat-obvious (but hey, it adds to my post count and someone else is bound to say it...) that you can turn the **** to adjust brightness.

Oct 19, 2010 | 04:48 PM

tinaheels

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i think yours has cover to dim them i know on mine i remover them much brighter now

Oct 19, 2010 | 05:02 PM

65f100_352

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go with some led's they are a chit ton brighter than standard bulbs, look on fleabay or this place has them pretty cheap:
LEDLight.com: Online Shopping for LED Lighting Products

Oct 19, 2010 | 07:42 PM

73' f-100

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I would go with the LED's. I haven't changed mine out yet, but my tach has different color options for the light and I had to find one that was not as bright, the one I wanted was to bright and overpowered my cluster lights.

Oct 19, 2010 | 07:54 PM

supercabfreak

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ive already checked the dimmer and yes, mine has the blueish-green plastic bulb covers to make the cluster green when ur turn on the lights (i like the green tint and would like to keep it)

Oct 19, 2010 | 10:26 PM

fordracing19

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replace the headlight switch

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Oct 20, 2010 | 02:40 AM

73' f-100

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Those look pretty good Pat. Does the dimmer function work with those bulbs?

Oct 20, 2010 | 02:57 AM

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65f100_352

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My dimmer works, you have to keep a regular bulb in the circuit somewhere, like I kept my high beam indicator bulb a regular bulb, for some reason leds won't dim any other way.

Oct 20, 2010 | 08:13 AM

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big78f150

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which bulbs fit our truck im gonna order me some i just got me a new silver cluster

Oct 20, 2010 | 08:51 AM

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pat67shorty

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I replaced the two cluster bulbs and the heater control bulb with the green WLED-xHP6 from the site I posted. Scroll down the page, they are about 2/3 down. They still dim with the headlight switch.