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Old Mar 24, 2018 | 09:36 AM
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Ok, so I changed all my cluster lights to led last night, it went good but a couple things about it are better bugging me. One is that the bulbs seem to barely dim even when return the **** all the way down, and my pillar gauges used to dim when the you turned the headlights on. But if you dimmed the lights all the way down they would light back up, now the gauges don’t light back up. Weird. Also I wanted my all the gauges to be blue but there is still some green showing up. I was hoping the blue bulbs would overcome the green tint.
 
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Originally Posted by Obs7.3Powerstroker
Ok, so I changed all my cluster lights to led last night, it went good but a couple things about it are better bugging me. One is that the bulbs seem to barely dim even when return the **** all the way down, and my pillar gauges used to dim when the you turned the headlights on. But if you dimmed the lights all the way down they would light back up, now the gauges don’t light back up. Weird. Also I wanted my all the gauges to be blue but there is still some green showing up. I was hoping the blue bulbs would overcome the green tint.
The green tinting has to be carefully scraped off to get the color to match. I'm going to leave that alone when I get around to switching the cluster to LED and will stay with cool white bulbs.
 
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Well having the electronic flasher prevented the fast flashing. However I had to add resistors like the YouTube video shows to keep the transmission happy and cruise control working.
 
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