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Old 06-15-2011, 12:25 AM   #1
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How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

I think this site needs more step by step "how to"s. So I made this one.



Use this link http://www.mikefordmustang.com/write...er-mustang.php for the basics. Even though this is for a SN95 and not a Mach 1 everything is the same up until you get your gauge cluster loose from the car.

There are two plugs that you need to press clips in with your finger while you wiggle them loose to get the gauge cluster loose from the car.

Once you get the cluster loose from the car and flip it over to take out the bulbs you will run into a white case around it (see below). Use a star screw driver to get the brass screws out.



At this point you are ready to take out the bulbs. You need to turn the white clips attached to the bulbs counter clockwise. They are small so a pair of needle nose pliers helped me alot.

For me the bulbs were a MAJOR pain in the *** to get out the clips at first using only my hands. I then used a work set of gloves that have rubber on the fingers. Whatever you do make sure you don't squeeze the bulb too much or you could break it. Instead get a good grip with two fingers on the bulb, hold the white clip with a pair of needle nose pliers and pull apart.

Now you are ready to put in your LED bulbs. It should look like this...



Install the LED bulbs back into the gauges but do not install the white case around the back of the gauges yet. I'm going to tell you a short cut...

Go install the gauges back in the car with the white case missing BUT BE CAREFUL not to hurt anything behind the gauges!!! Now plug in only the plug that is closest to the passenger side. This will allow you to see which bulbs are working and which aren't without having to take everything back apart. It should look like this...



Now turn the lights on and you can see which bulbs are working and which aren't. For me at first only the far left and far right ones worked. I had to pull some back out and switch them around and some I had to just play with the LED bulb in the clip and how it was seated. After they all light up you are ready to reinstall.

You will need to unplug them again to reinstall the white case. When you unplug the only plug in you used to light them up, again...BE CAREFUL. The white case keeps the green motherboard from becoming detached from the gauges. So hold it gently so it can't detach and move the plug side to side, not up and down like you normally might.

After this you can use the first link again and just reinstall everything like you took it apart. Then your gauges should have gone from this....

STOCK





to this
























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Old 06-15-2011, 12:33 AM   #2
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

The bulbs are here http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b....html%23ipanel and are the 74-xHP3

Now if you get the "cool white" bulbs your gauges will look like this...



I like the factory look of white, just not the dim look. So I figured out you need to get the "warm white"

The cool white is more of a 6000k HID look and the warm white is a pure 4500k HID white look.
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Old 06-15-2011, 12:36 AM   #3
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

Excellent. I will be doing this. Thanks
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Old 06-15-2011, 01:52 AM   #4
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

Nice! Thanks for this!!!
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Old 06-15-2011, 04:44 AM   #5
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

man thanks for the write up, i would agree for sure need more how to's and write ups, helps out alot, this one should become a sticky, also i'll prob be doing this soon, just alot better for seeing it and looks great,

would be kewl to switch mine to yellow, that would be nice,

again thanks for the write up, really helpful

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Old 06-15-2011, 07:44 AM   #6
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

does the dimming feature still work?
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Old 07-10-2011, 12:50 AM   #7
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

Thanks! nice how-to, just ordered the cool white LED's for mine
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Old 07-10-2011, 02:32 PM   #8
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)



Mine turned out really nice! I didn't take off the white cover on the back of the cluster for fear if messing up the mother board. I was able to remove and replace the bulbs with needle nose pliers. At first, only one bulb didn't work, so I bent the clip towards the white base of the fixture and it worked just fine. Thanks for the write up and buying info!!
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Old 07-10-2011, 08:04 PM   #9
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

This was the FIRST mod that I did to my Mach. I also put a red and blue LED in the AC knob It looks sweet! .... STILL havent been able to get git of the **** GREEEN odometer tho!
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Old 11-13-2011, 11:51 PM   #10
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

I bought the bulbs, and am very happy. Has anyone done these LEDs for the rear tail lights? It would be around $120.. There is a video with a Mustang on the site. He has sequential turn signals and you can see the LEDs light up and turn off faster. Hard to see what they really look like though.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...5-T.htm#photos
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

Awesome, I'll be going with the cool white to match my AB mach.

I agree, this site needs more "how-to's".

SVTP is FULL of them lol.
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

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I bought the bulbs, and am very happy. Has anyone done these LEDs for the rear tail lights? It would be around $120.. There is a video with a Mustang on the site. He has sequential turn signals and you can see the LEDs light up and turn off faster. Hard to see what they really look like though.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...5-T.htm#photos
I will be doing this soon
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

Doing this today with the warm whites...green looks good also since it matches all other lighting. Just seems the red "hi low" or redline marking doesn't show??
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

I know a little late! but im doing the same. getting orange done in LED, I have a Comp Orange Mach and thought to do it orange. including A/C lights. unsure yet about the Trac cont Defrost and Fog switches.
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I still have mine but havent done it yet, I put a gage pod on steering column and not thinking put a dab of crazy glue...anyway pics when done with yours, maybe I will work on this my next days off (along with freakin blower idler).
I am still kinda confused about the blue tint on gage cluster thing reported above. So all our gage cluster have a blue tint? Poster says used a dremel to remove, more specific please, a dremel has like a gazillion attachments, was it ground off?? Is the blue tint on BACK of gage cluster??
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I need to do this too. Mine are looking pretty dim now. Nice write-up!
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

I finally got around to doing this since I had bulbs for awhile now. Super easy, literally 15-20 minutes (though I was going to do the overlay on bezel, but the clear lens is...another story), anywho, pics during the DAY in my barn, can't wait to see how they look tonight on the way to 50th show in Savannah!!





Great write up, wouldn't have even known about this if it wasnm't for this thread!!!
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I finally got around to doing this since I had bulbs for awhile now. Super easy, literally 15-20 minutes (though I was going to do the overlay on bezel, but the clear lens is...another story), anywho, pics during the DAY in my barn, can't wait to see how they look tonight on the way to 50th show in Savannah!!


Great write up, wouldn't have even known about this if it wasnm't for this thread!!!
it is amazing how some of the simple stuff people do not know about. how easy it is to get to something like this. I had to change out a tach meter reading before on a old speedo and was amazed at how easy it was to change it out and also how easy it was to get to the bulbs, this older mustang

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I finally got around to doing this since I had bulbs for awhile now. Super easy, literally 15-20 minutes (though I was going to do the overlay on bezel, but the clear lens is...another story), anywho, pics during the DAY in my barn, can't wait to see how they look tonight on the way to 50th show in Savannah!!





Great write up, wouldn't have even known about this if it wasnm't for this thread!!!

Looks great! I need to do this too. I know I'm getting old, but I swear it's gotten harder to read at night.
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

Bringing this thread back,I need help..I'm beggining to think some Mach clusters have blue film on the back of the lenses and others don't?? I've bought 2 sets of white LED bulbs and both sets light up light blue like half the clusters in this thread were posted and I'm looking for the white effect...Other members are posting white LED bulbs and there clusters are lighting up white not light blue?? And no I do not have the cool white or blue bulbs I have bright or "warm" white bulbs...I see on page 4 of this thread one member posted about having to remove the film from the lense in his cluster and he got the white effect he was looking for,but the OP post he just went with white LEDs no removal of the blue film and his light up white?? Someone please elaborate I'm tired of removing my cluster and I really don't wanna remove the blue film cause the finished product is ALWAYS spotty when lit up..
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

The ones I got were crystal white, like 5k or 6k white. They have a blue-ish tint to them depending on the light around. At night they look more closely to white. I just deal with it because it sounds like a pain in the *** to remove the film. I think I would be more inclined to do it if I could get every light on the dash to bright white. I think the HVAC controls has film too.
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Pretty sure only way is to remove the film. I've never heard of anyone getting a pure white look with just bulbs alone.


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^^ ????

Half the guys who posted in this thread look to just have done bulbs and got the white led lit gauges,not much talk if any at all about removing the blue film but one member..somebody has to know this answer
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Re: How to: LED gauge install (white like stock, not blue)

I just ordered these, they come in natural white

https://www.superbrightleds.com/more...rofit-car/199/
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