Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
Whoo Hoo! The mailman delivered the L.E.D.s today. I decided to wait to re-install the cluster last night. No sense fighting to get those bulbs installed after the gauges are back in the car.
Well the gauges illuminate red now. I went with the brightest L.E.D.s that I could find. They do dim with the dimmer switch. At their brightest setting they look OK but they sure aren't overly bright. I'm glad I didn't opt for bulbs with less lumens. I'm not thrilled with the amount of light on the speedometer. I can't get the camera to accurately portray what the gauges look like. The glare on the tachometer that shows in the picture is not actually there.
I wonder whether or not I should have removed these blue domed light diffusers from the housing before putting it back together. (I circled them in the picture) They're glued in place and I didn't want to screw stuff up so I left them alone. If I take the cluster back out again I'll try to remove them.
The gauges all work now so I must have been right about the corrosion being at fault.
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Whoo Hoo! The mailman delivered the L.E.D.s today. I decided to wait to re-install the cluster last night. No sense fighting to get those bulbs installed after the gauges are back in the car.
Well the gauges illuminate red now. I went with the brightest L.E.D.s that I could find. They do dim with the dimmer switch. At their brightest setting they look OK but they sure aren't overly bright. I'm glad I didn't opt for bulbs with less lumens. I'm not thrilled with the amount of light on the speedometer. I can't get the camera to accurately portray what the gauges look like. The glare on the tachometer that shows in the picture is not actually there.
I wonder whether or not I should have removed these blue domed light diffusers from the housing before putting it back together. (I circled them in the picture) They're glued in place and I didn't want to screw stuff up so I left them alone. If I take the cluster back out again I'll try to remove them.
The gauges all work now so I must have been right about the corrosion being at fault.
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