Alast! my blue cluster is complete!
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Look's great my neighbor just done this to his 06 F150. He also changed the red blinking light on the dash to a blue one and I changed mine to a green led it look's great. Next thing i'm gonna do is get green led's put in my dome and cargo light's.
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First of all thanks for allthe compliments!
The whole process realy wasn't that hard once I got into it.
I knew that the gauge face had that funky green film behind it,so I setout to learn everytrhing I could learn about removeing the gauge overlay.Which involed removing the cluster removing the clear cover which just pops off,removing the needles,and carfully removing the black overlay.The overlay was "tacked" if you will to the light diffuser behind it in about 4 spots.I just took a razor blade on the end of my needle nose pilers and just wedged it right off being very careful not to cut through the face overlay.With the overlay off I took some fine grit sand paper and a razor and scraped off the film behind all of the numbers and letters,Don't be afraid to take off to much of the surrounding area becase the light can only come through where the lines and numbers are the rest is not clear through just where the light normaly comes through.Then I wiped the sweat off my fore head,put the face back on with alittle glue to hold it in place.I put on the new needles which are the clear ones,put the clear cluster cover back on the front.For lights I put the blue leds behind the cluster in place of all of the ones that illuminate the face/I left the normal ones behind the blinkers and engine light though.Thats about it though it wasn't that bad, anyone with about $150 bucks and a rainy day could do it!
The whole process realy wasn't that hard once I got into it.
I knew that the gauge face had that funky green film behind it,so I setout to learn everytrhing I could learn about removeing the gauge overlay.Which involed removing the cluster removing the clear cover which just pops off,removing the needles,and carfully removing the black overlay.The overlay was "tacked" if you will to the light diffuser behind it in about 4 spots.I just took a razor blade on the end of my needle nose pilers and just wedged it right off being very careful not to cut through the face overlay.With the overlay off I took some fine grit sand paper and a razor and scraped off the film behind all of the numbers and letters,Don't be afraid to take off to much of the surrounding area becase the light can only come through where the lines and numbers are the rest is not clear through just where the light normaly comes through.Then I wiped the sweat off my fore head,put the face back on with alittle glue to hold it in place.I put on the new needles which are the clear ones,put the clear cluster cover back on the front.For lights I put the blue leds behind the cluster in place of all of the ones that illuminate the face/I left the normal ones behind the blinkers and engine light though.Thats about it though it wasn't that bad, anyone with about $150 bucks and a rainy day could do it!
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Dude, That looks awesome and for those that don't like the green(as i don't either) but its easier on the eyes at nighttime as to reduce eye fatigue is what I've heard but other car manufacturers use different colors and they claim the same?
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Question for you, does the dimmer still work? I wouldnt think it would with the leds, Your gauges look amazing and ive been wanting to do this mod but would like to be able to dim them down for a long drive at night.
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Think about that for a minute...
Question for you, does the dimmer still work? I wouldnt think it would with the leds, Your gauges look amazing and ive been wanting to do this mod but would like to be able to dim them down for a long drive at night.
No, the dimmer has not any probs with it,Think about it the cluster is the only lights that are regular lights on the dimmer,the rest of the dash is all leds of one form of the other.
So the anwser is no I have seen no probs with the dimmer funtion
Look at my album and you can see the some other pics of my interior.
