Make Your Gauge Cluster Look NEW!
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Sorry guys, please forgive the focusing issues with the camera. I was testing out a new camera. Obviously won't be using it anymore, but enjoy this project regardless!
I thought the new camera had a nice picture quality, hopefully you will find something that you enjoy more though! Thank you for the great video!
I can't tell you how much I appreciate all your videos. You have made my 1st gen restoration 10x easier. A wealth of knowledge sir I have learned so much from you and for that I Thank you.
I'm glad they've been helpful!
I did the blue leds and I love them. Super great upgrade. I did have to turn them 180 degrees as suggested for some to work. But after I did it,they work great
Yeah, I held off on doing this for so long because I thought they would be too bright. I absolutely love it though
I love this idea, now we are going to do ours.
It worked great! You'll love it
Great advice... work on one project at a time and finish it. It’s hard for a lot of us but definitely something to live by.
On the other hand you did a great job on the video. 👍🏻😎
That is what keeps me going. Just work on one little thing at a time.
Looks Great Time ! Amazing what a little cleaning, aluminum tape, LED bulbs n new fluorescent needle paint can do. Huge difference ! Thumbs Up !
The best led tutorial for sure! Ordered the lights and will get it done this winter! Keep up the great work! 🤘🏻
Awesome! Thank you!
Nice work. Best first gen Cummins channel on TH-cam.
That means a lot. Thanks!
Thanks Tim, ordered the lights and paint and tape. I received them on wednesday . took a couple of hours to do and then put it in the 1st gen. great directions thanks again
Awesome! I'm going to be doing it to the silver crew cab soon as well.
Wow, great video! The before and after difference was amazing. Will be doing this on my 84'.
I like the white, but I would rather still have green as it keeps it more subdued and not as bright on your eyes at night. Hopefully I can find green led bulbs, but some of the videos I have seen say they shine a more bluish than green. Perhaps a bit of neon on the tip of the needles to offset? Just a thought.
I'm in the middle of switching mine all over to green. I really liked the white but my new fuel pressure gauge is green and the bulb is not accessible. So, i decided to switch then all over and i really like the green too now.
Can you please make a video on how to fix a broken speedometer
That is on the to do list. The red and white crew cabs is bad. I'll film it in the next few weeks
@@decentgarage thank you so much man
Great video! Glad I found your channel. Definitely doing this to my 84!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm going to be doing the same thing on mine but with a blue back light. I love the results!
Let me know how the blue turns out!
Excellent results and excellent production quality. Thanks.
Thank you very much!
This is next on the list along with the window seal. Im still sorting out the charging issue. But well get it done this evening. Thanks for all the good helpful vids, keep them coming!
Sounds great!
Excellent video. Very detailed.
Glad it was helpful 👍
your videos keep getting more and more professional, and I gotta say I love it! keep goin my friend
I appreciate that!
Amazing what a little cleaning and aluminum tap and new technology LED's can do. O n fluorescent paint. Nice work Tim ! Looks Great !
Thanks 👍
Great videos hopefully your channel blows up!
Haha I hope so too! I'll just keep making good content and what ever happens will happen 👍
That looks awesome! It'd be cool to get some glow in the dark paint to paint the needles!
Cool idea!
Awesome job Tim. I did the LED's before I seen your video. I need to go back and ad the HVAC tape to it. "Already have the tape" From the video it looks like it helps.
The tape does a good job distributing the light around the gauges
Great video and awesome idea!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very cool video! Love the channel and how descriptive you are in your videos. I will be doing the same to my 91. Thank you!!
Awesome! Thank you!
That came out great! Might have to do that to the COD.
It really made the truck seem way nicer.
I did the same thing with my 1985 Dodge Ramcharger and had the same problem with the LEDs. They are positive and negative poles. That was a good idea with the aluminum tape. I might take the dash apart again and put the tape.
The tape really helped make the lighting more even.
Your usual great work Tim. Did you just use water to clean the gauge faces. Would you think a touch of dielectric grease on bulb bases would be helpful.
Thanks man! I didn't use dielectric grease here because the risk of water being an issue is very slim but it wouldn't hurt to use some
Ha! Just did this too! Used green LEDs, super happy with the results.
I thought I wouldn't like how bright they are but i really like it. Time to do it to my OG crew now.
For sure. Huge improvement.. not sure if you’ve done it yet; but you should test both rigs for boost leaks! I just TIG’ged up a leak tester, could let ya borrow it via USPS if ya want. I found several leaks that were pretty nasty.
@@jeverich I actually built a boost leak tester a few years ago and have never used it. Are you on instagram. Id be interested to see what yours looks like
Don’t have any social media, I think we emailed a while back. I was the guy up in Kodiak.
@@jeverich oh gotcha! Yeah shoot me an email. I want to see your boost leak tester.
Another great video! I may have missed the answer but are the leds dimmable?
Yes they are
At about 5m 05s in your video - on the table are (6) blue caps/hoods that I assume are color filters came off the cluster illumination lights? Did you leave those color filters out or? Thanks
I left the colored filters off and have white lights.
Have you tried replacing or cleaning the glass lens on the factory tach?
I have not
My '93 has gauge lights that are temperamental, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I'll probably be doing this pretty soon.
As for the rest of the interior, I gotta pull out and wash the carpet properly, glue new fabric to the headliner board (the old fabric finally gave up the ghost) and fix one tiny tear in the seat. Then it'll be like it was new.
I also have the exact same trailer brake your extra dash has. I have no idea if they're any good, but it's nice it came with the truck. xD
Keep up the cool videos.
I'll be doing all that to this interior too. That trailer brake controller feels super heavy duty. It's actually really cool!
For headliner material go to Joannes fabrics they sell nice headliner use waterproof spray glue thanks Tim another great videos David
One suggestion for your temperamental lights could be the pins on the circuit board, where your gauge light harness power connects. Dodge went for the quick and dirty method, and didn’t solder them To the circuitboard. They just relied on the mechanical pressure of the pins being staked. I just recently did an LED conversion as well, and added solder to every pan. Pretty easy to do, and it makes a really good contact connection.
@@jeverich That's good to know. I will make sure to look out for that. Thanks.
you can change the light from the back ( if you don't know)
Yeah, i couldn't figure out how to get the locking mechanism to release.
I put some blue LED bulbs in mine about 5 years ago and they all are starting to flicker and fail. Time to pull it all apart again.
Do you have a video of a speedometer fix?
I don't. Usually it comes down to the vss gears or the gauge cluster itself.
Hey man how do you get the info cluster plug off? Mine is real hard and doesn’t look like it has a clip on it.
Give it a little wiggle while you pull. It should come off.
What bulb did you use for the hvac control? Mine went out and I’ll upgrade to led while I’m in there
Its the same bulb as i used for the gauges. Make sure to get white. Any other color with distort the red and the blue color of the heat and cold
@@decentgarage thanks man. You’re the goat!
Wondering if someone can recommend a compatible light option on amazon. The ones in the link are not available, and wanting to find something else which will work as well.
I just checked the link and it shows that they are still available.
Thanks for the response. Love your videos, Theyre helping me understand my truck piece by piece!
The guage lights are listed as "Currently Unavailable" for me (Maybe because I am up in Canada). I am wanting to find another option however I dont quite understand what to choose. Any idea what I should look up that would be compatible?
I did this with my 87 Ramcharger. Looked really great for about a week and then everything went dark. I blew a fuse. Replaced and it immediately blew. I even tried a higher fee, but it also immediately blew. I’m wondering if there is a wire issue instead of an LED issue, but the regular bulbs were fine.
Interesting. I've only heard of that being an issues with changing turn signals to led without upgrading the flasher relay. I will keep you up to date on how they work out
@@decentgarage Ah! I switched those bulbs as well. I guess I need to upgrade that flasher relay. I haven't found the recommendation in my research. Do you know off the top of your head what I would need?
@@DonahueJosh go to LMC Truck or superbrightled.com they have them, I think you may need two of them.
I messaged you on Fb under Gabe Niccum. I was wondering if you could assist me in locating the dome lamp connector under the dash. I know my light works as I connected it to an outside battery source but it came unplugged on the truck. And I can’t find where it connects under my dash.
Are you on Instagram or Facebook. Mark Taylor with TaylorMade Dodge Garage is my go to for random parts
@@decentgarage I’ll have to check him out.
Any worry if some of those blue lenses have been melted? Doing mine right now
It's common for some of the lenses to melt. Just another reason why switching to leds is a good idea.
@@decentgarage I got it done today. Man it makes a huge difference. I’ve got to replace my headlight switch cause the dimmer doesn’t work but the dash is super bright now. Thanks for the video man.
Upon doing this i found that the previous owner had done this mod already. But since the lights in the cluster were constantly flickering I went ahead and changed the bulbs. Now my issue is that i cannot get my string for my PRND12 to function correctly. Any thoughts on how to correct this?
Give me more details. Is the string still intact? There are two notches on the lever that the string can hook to.
@@decentgarage Yes, string is intact. It seems like somehow the adjustment is off. The park gear is indicated as Reverse and my grid heater wont even activate when I cycle the key, the starter relay that I recently installed will click all day though. If I cycle through the gears and go all the way to 1 the gear indicator will stop at around 2 or so.
@@KeystoneOutdoorsman so yeah there are two slots that it can hook to. Try hooking it to the other slot.
@@decentgarage Will do. Thanks for your response and content!
Great video! I have been wanting to do this to my Cummins! I am going to do it!
Are you in Utah? It looks like it.
Yep I'm down by payson. This upgrade is awesome!
Right on! I am up near Logan. Have had a 92 for over 15 years and I finally decided to start fixing it up! Your videos have given me all sorts of ideas!
@@mattjensen1977 Nice, I have family and friends up that way and get up there a few times a year. Let me know how the progress on the 92 goes.
Let me know if you get up this way. I would love to check your truck out! I am sure I will be using your videos and have questions as I get into things with my truck! Thanks!
I wish you would have showed how the courtesy light is mounted. Mine came loose and I'm not sure how that bracket goes in.
Shoot! I can make a quick video of that for you if you want. It would be super easy for me to show it on my spare dash
Yeah. That would be awesome!
@@DonahueJosh I'll fi that this weekend and throw it up next week 👍
@@decentgarage That would be great, Thank You
Are those LEDs 100% dimmable ?
There are not very dimmable so that is something you sacrifice when doing this upgrade.
@@decentgarage awesome thanks alot man ! Do you find them too bright for when your night driving ?
I just put them in my 92 D350 and none of them work. I tried to flip them 180 degrees and still nothing. Hopefully I didn’t screw something up...
Try putting a few of the original lights back in. It may be a bad batch of lights. I bought two packs. In one pack 2 of them didn't work at all. In the other pack they all worked.
'Ovens Garage' has a video here on youtube where he did LED conversion in his 1st gen gauge cluster. He showed how he had to slight re-arrange (bend) the pins on the LED bulbs to make contact in the sockets - might be your issue.
RedRyan I’ll give that a try, thanks. I tried putting the original lights back in but they didn’t work either which is why I was afraid I messed something up.
@@aarono.8925 oh - if the original bulbs don’t work either - might check the pins where the harness connects to the cluster. There’s a comment further down here that speaks to the issue - dodge didn’t solder the pins, instead relied on mechanical connection.
Are they dimable?
Yes, watch this video to see them dim
th-cam.com/video/mn2aPcLl59g/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! Sorry but happy to report I have an 86 workhorse plow truck. It's not pretty but runs like a champ and my favorite. It's the farm beast and may not be very pretty but still like things to work. Thanks for the vids as I am not a gear head. Helps with the silly world around us to lose yourself in some fixins for the day. Greetings from north Idaho and thanks for what you know! Merry Christmas!
No problem!
Don't half-ass it, only leads to near future fatalities, either _ALL_ LED's, or _NO_ LED's!!
Ya get whacky current draw shit happening when mixing illumination tech, ...which leads to dudes sticking in purple LED's in a '79 Dodge cluster
and wondering why they're pulsing & super dim and the gas needle won't move....
then here come the lawsuits subpoena
...but I digress