Gladys Gets LED Dash Lights

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RustyRatRod

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I know it's not Mopar, but I've been doing a few projects on Gladys the last couple of days. Welded up some holes in her doors where some geniuses over time bolted on the WAY WRONG mirrors. Then I removed and cleaned the cluster and replaced all the bulbs. It calls for 194 but the 168 bulbs are higher wattage and put out a little more light. I also replaced her cluster voltage regulator. The two background illumination bulbs I replaced with 2 ZEVO 168 white LED bulbs. I've had it done in Vixen a while but kinda dragged my feet on Gladys, because she really doesn't get driven at night a lot. It's still daylight in this picture, but you can see the dash is illuminated very brightly. I highly recommend it.
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RustyRatRod said:
I know it's not Mopar, but I've been doing a few projects on Gladys the last couple of days. Welded up some holes in her doors where some geniuses over time bolted on the WAY WRONG mirrors. Then I removed and cleaned the cluster and replaced all the bulbs. It calls for 194 but the 168 bulbs are higher wattage and put out a little more light. I also replaced her cluster voltage regulator. The two background illumination bulbs I replaced with 2 ZEVO 168 white LED bulbs. I've had it done in Vixen a while but kinda dragged my feet on Gladys, because she really doesn't get driven at night a lot. It's still daylight in this picture, but you can see the dash is illuminated very brightly. I highly recommend it.
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Good job! When I replaced the lights on my Duster it changed the whole appearance. Less draw on that wiring is a bonus too!
 
Not to hijack but what bulb would you recommend on a 68 Dart. Green and bright led. Looks great by the way. I used led when I did mine but don't remember what bulb I used lol.
 
I install LEDs in all my clusters !
These the old eyes see the old gauges . Lol
I had to replace the heater core in my 93 Mazda B2600 last week ( well still working on it) so I popped LEDs in.

Whole damn dash had to come out to get to core !

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Kendog 170 said:
Not to hijack but what bulb would you recommend on a 68 Dart. Green and bright led. Looks great by the way. I used led when I did mine but don't remember what bulb I used lol.
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I get my bulbs from superbrightleds.com but others have them too. Select the location of the bulb you want and you can choose the color.

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RustyRatRod said:
I know it's not Mopar, but I've been doing a few projects on Gladys the last couple of days. Welded up some holes in her doors where some geniuses over time bolted on the WAY WRONG mirrors. Then I removed and cleaned the cluster and replaced all the bulbs. It calls for 194 but the 168 bulbs are higher wattage and put out a little more light. I also replaced her cluster voltage regulator. The two background illumination bulbs I replaced with 2 ZEVO 168 white LED bulbs. I've had it done in Vixen a while but kinda dragged my feet on Gladys, because she really doesn't get driven at night a lot. It's still daylight in this picture, but you can see the dash is illuminated very brightly. I highly recommend it.
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Count your blessings that you don't have a '92 and up truck, as guys on the FTE Forum are discovering that replacing the 194 and/or 168 bulbs with LEDs is messing-up their brake lights and turn signals. I haven't been following this all too closely, as both of my '92's still have the original 194 bulbs, but it's a "thing" (may be due to polarity, IIRC).

Nice looking gauges, BTW!
 
ProjectBazza said:
Count your blessings that you don't have a '92 and up truck, as guys on the FTE Forum are discovering that replacing the 194 and/or 168 bulbs with LEDs is messing-up their brake lights and turn signals. I haven't been following this all too closely, as both of my '92's still have the original 194 bulbs, but it's a "thing" (may be due to polarity, IIRC).

Nice looking gauges, BTW!
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For that very reason, the only LEDs are in the two cluster illumination sockets and nowhere else. All the other four only got the 168 incandescent bulbs, which is a step up from the 194 that was there. The 168 has a little more wattage and is a little brighter.
 
Woodsman341 said:
I might be overthinking it, that's a possibility. I just wanted to get the correct one without a lot of running back and forth. I live basically in the middle of nowhere and it's easily an hour to the closest retail parts store.
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mbaird said:
Nope ! Real Mazda
The last year 93
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I was actually trying to bust Rusty’s chops, but I’ll settle for multiple victims…..haha
 
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