Re: Guage cluster bulbs

Posted by Hellbilly429 on Oct 01, 2012; 12:34am
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Pull the screws out of the top, remove the tach and speedo cable from the bottom, also remove the 2 nuts from the bottom. It makes the process easier if you take off the headlight bucket so you can drop the bottom part of the enclosure off easier. There are 3 nuts (if I remember correctly) that hold the inner unit onto the mounting bracket, remove those and the whole unit will come up off the mounting bracket so you can get at all of the bulbs. The bulbs are held in with rubber gromets, if they don't come out easily by just pulling (which they probably wont) your best bet is to get a small flathead screwdriver and pry all the way around the gromets while pulling them out so that you do not tear the rubber.

I don't recall if you have to separate the 3 different units inside in order to get at the bulbs, but if you do they are held together by some very tiny screws, and there are some small gears and I believe a spring between the left side unit and the middle one, so when you separate those 2 be very careful not to lose those pieces!

Pulling it apart is a lot easier than putting it back together, be sure to mark the positions of the wires under the unit as they will expand the bottom half of the case and make it very difficult to put the unit back together if they are not put back in place.

I am telling you all of this from memory, so if I left something out or if something I said was incorrect I apologize!

Good Luck!