I am getting ready to rebuild my cluster. can I get led bulbs? and if so will they work with the dimmer?

 

I am doing that right now. I was going to get the bulbs but decided since I wiring everything new to go with something a little different than the conversion bulbs.

Last post on this page is the pictures of what I did.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...1-build-6.html

If you get the replacement style LED bulbs it will plug in just like the old bulb, but you will most likely have problems with the dimmer switch in your truck. You would need a special switch to dim them wired into the circuit.

This is one reason I swapped to colored LED's in my cluster build. The green I have will still be bright, but it won't be as bad as a bright white light shining right at you while going down the road.

 

I like your dome light panel I want some serious light out of the dome light. that looks like the ticket.

I did some more research and I guess technically you need an led dimmer but some say they still dim with the switch just a little I bought some led bulbs we will see how it works.

 

All I can say is it's dark out so I gave the LED dash lights and LED dome light a try. IT'S BRIGHT. Very bright. These pictures were taken at dark with out a flash.

20151019_113134 by Safjist Nipnog, on Flickr

20151019_113144 by Safjist Nipnog, on Flickr

20151019_184601 by Safjist Nipnog, on Flickr

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20151019_190553 by Safjist Nipnog, on Flickr

All did to "mod" the original dome light housing for it to fit was take the guts out of the original bulb holder. Then I took a pair of pliers to turn the holder where the slits in the side was side to side in the dome housing. Then I put the lower part of the LED panel into the light housing. It held it still. If you were to drill the bottom out and take the whole bulb holder out you could fit a larger panel in there.

20151019_095438 by Safjist Nipnog, on Flickr

The way I did it you could always put the regular guts back into it later with out damaging it.

This panel comes with three different plug in ends, but all of them are wrong. So I just cut the end of the wires off of one of the adapters and wired it in direct.

This is who I got mine from, don't remember how long it took to come in but it's under 4 bucks shipped.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361295094315?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Later on I was planning on some lights under the dash pointed down, I don't think I am going to need them now.

I had no reflective material left in my housing is why I wanted them all pointing forward and didn't use a bulb style LED like I did in my taillights. They make some round LED 12v Panels but they are a lot smaller and only have 9 LED's on them. The one I used has 24 LED's in it.

 

thats cool if they did not fit could you trim off a LED or two without messing up the rest?

I bought one, too slick and cheap My interior is all black it will need some light

 

It depends on how the board is made if you can do that. I didn't have the need too so I didn't look. That is the exact one I used so it should fit.

 

Curious to see how it comes out! My gauge lights are pretty dim. (it matches my IQ)
They are autometer gauges and I am using red inserts for the dash, but they are pretty dull, so I would think the LED's would be much better. Only thing is, LED's are very bright, very sharp light. That might get annoying after a while?

 

I wired up my dome light setup yesterday with the door switches its all complete except for the light and the bezel. the housing and lens are on backorder at mid fifty. Mine is the rectangular one so it probably won't fit without trimming or something.

 

I changed my dash to LED. It's a huge difference. See this thread:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...my-gauges.html

And this one:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...questions.html

 

smallello, thats exactly what I want to do to my dash cluster, thanks for the link.