Originally Posted by airborne82nddiv2003
Awesome write up, I actually bought a spare speedo months back just to experiment like this but never found the time until now. Thanks for doing the dirty work!
A few questions if you don't mind.. Did the low fuel indicator ever light up? And what leds did you use? The one's I bought didn't work out so well
Thank you again for a great write up!
Chris
Chris,
The low fuel light did NOT in fact light up. I was disappointed. I'm sure I could tap the existing low fuel circuit and make the one on the gauge active again, but I have not tried yet.
I ended up with two bulbs types from
SuperBrite LEDs website.
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Qty | Product / Options | Price/ea |
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2 | WLED-xHP5: Wedge Base Bulb | $ 5.95 |
WLED-UVHP5: UV-BlackLight
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5 | B8-HP: B8-HP series Instrument LED bulb | $ 2.59 |
B8.3D-UVHP: UV-BlackLight
The only issue I ran into was that the instrument bulbs are not the correct type for our sockets. I had to do some trimming of the bulb bases to get them to fit. But they were the only UV ones that matched.
Hope that helps.