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Old 08-14-2009, 12:17 AM
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mine, the ones i got from the peterbilt dealer i work at and i found out these lights are incredibly hard to photograph...in other words i cant get a pic of them where they arent all blurred...still havent seen the lights completely i found one of the alt. bolts was stripped so i gotta put the new alt. in tomorrow and HOPEFULLY my battery will be back
 
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Old 08-14-2009, 11:59 AM
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Haha, Thats always fun to do.


I know, right? I always told myself that if I ever got married, I'd be the king of my castle AT ALL TIMES...

It took her about a month to trick me into believing that was the case when really it wasn't!
 
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Old 08-14-2009, 10:50 PM
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well heres my dash lights... they look alot brighter than yours for some reason? anyway turns out my sexy blue LED stereo stopped working randomly so i gotta fix that

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Old 08-19-2009, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by makeos
looks good. i am actually working on this myself. only excpetion is i am removing the green tint. then will add blue leds. to remove the tint, just pull off the needles and peel off gauge face. then scratch or wipe off the green tint layer and reinstall everything. only downside is that you have to recalibrate some of the gauges.

sample pic from a spare cluster with my led work light:


NICE!!!!!!! But how do you recalibrate the gauges once you do this?
 
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Old 08-20-2009, 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by turnerjc03
NICE!!!!!!! But how do you recalibrate the gauges once you do this?
way i see it...if you dont lay them down (which completely wrecks the as previously mentioned) and you dont touch the needles you dont need to recalibrate them haha

i currently can not think of the name but they are big into LEDs and like i said peterbilt dealerships sell them from the front counter
 
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I think im going crazy because I just bought 10 194 bulbs and pulled my dash and ac apart and they are all the 905 twist lock bulbs.. Only one so far that is 194 was my ash tray light.


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OMG im an idiot.... they pull out of the "twistlock"

Shows what 4 hours of sleep does to you..

Pics up soon.
 
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Ok... Don't buy cheap single LEDs for the Illumination of the gauges.. Mine arnt bright enough.. They work great for the warning lights though. I paid $4.00 for 10 LEDs.

I just bought 8 of the 5 LED wide views for $19 shipped.(same ones Sycostang used)

Now time for dome light and door panel lights..

 
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The blue dash lights look pretty sweet. Although I prefer my green, I wonder what blue would look like in the 87-91 dash?
 
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WOW, looks awesome! I never minded the green, its just hard finding a stereo that matches. Alpine stopped doing green, now I gotta go JVC or something to get multi colors.

Good job on the LED's guys!
 
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I just put some of the natural white 5 LED bulbs in the front marker lights of my truck. They are so white, they make my silverstar headlights look yellow.
 
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what size do i need i will talk my parents into it for a early christmas present.
 
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And i am going to remove the green filter so how do you recalibrate the guages and where is the best place to buy them.
 
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Originally Posted by Sycostang67
I just put some of the natural white 5 LED bulbs in the front marker lights of my truck. They are so white, they make my silverstar headlights look yellow.
sweeet. Ive been looking into the LED reverse lights right now.

I need to get some clear headlights so I can do all LEDs up front.

I want my whole truck to be LEDs
 
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The gauges looks awesome. I will have to do this to my truck to match my Pioneer HU. I pass by Peterbilt everyday on the way to and from work.

I don't know about the cluster needing to be upright at all times. My dad's 93 cluster laid flat on the work bench for 2 days while we replaced burned wires behind the dash and it still works great.
 
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oh yeah...company that makes the lights i got is united pacific industries

United Pacific Industries | Home IIRC, if not just google them...search around there they have tons of LED stuff...i am going to do my interior dome and the cargo light next...i just put the leftover blue LED i had in the ash tray light and removed the light from the ash tray and tied it up under the dash so the light shines on the floor...it looks awesome...it really shows up on the blue parts i painted on my door...

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looks pretty bright in that second pic but its not actually that bad...doesnt bother me on any passengers when im driving at night...

just need to get my cobra 29 chrome in there...blue LED display as well
 


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