dash light upgrade
have 78 silverado. Is there a brighter dash bulb I can use in my gauge cluster. One of my bulbs are out and since I need to replace it I need to remove the dash and a brighter dash at night would be nice. Thanks
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Re: dash light upgrade
Amazon has several choices of LED bulbs.
I have never tried led bulbs. Most of the time a good cleaning a repainting of the backing plate and replace the bulbs will brighten it up some. |
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Here is a video I found there are several about this (Of course);)
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nice video, did not know if you pull out the bulbs they are no good. I wonder if that is the same on a 78?.
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I missed that in the video.
Sometimes the little wires bend on those 194's If you're replacing them with new ones that's not a big deal. |
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168 is the next brighter bulb that fits in same socket as 194.
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anyone know off hand how many dash bulbs are in the cluster. I want to make sure I have enough new LEDs before I tear into it. Thanks
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5 on one side and 4 on the other side. |
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update on my led bulb replacement.
Finally got some time today to replace my dash bulbs with LED"s. Bought them off ebay. They seem to be a slightly thinner where the wires connect to the socket. I would recommend bench testing every one of them before install with sockets connected. Now that it is done, I will drive tonight and let everyone know results. I will say they are bluer than the OEMs pretty sure brighter. Will update. |
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drove it the other night. seems to be a little better but seem to have a dead dark spot in upper left corner of speedometer gauge. is this common or do I have one light not working.
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