Different bulb color behind SR gauges!!
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Different bulb color behind SR gauges!!
I had heard somewhere to take off the bulb covers to make them brighter. Well I did that and the blue seemed way dulled down. So I went to a local truck stop and they had lots of bulb colors. I replaced the 194's and the 168's with the dyed blue glass bulbs. The blue stands out WAYYYYY more than before now. Looks good and the mileage dials are now blue as well.
Random, if you read this can you look up in the manual and tell me and tell me the bulb numbers and quantities that are in the heater dials, clock, cruise control butons, and the foglights. I think there are some more right below the heater controls but I can't think of what they are.
Random, if you read this can you look up in the manual and tell me and tell me the bulb numbers and quantities that are in the heater dials, clock, cruise control butons, and the foglights. I think there are some more right below the heater controls but I can't think of what they are.
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There are already bulbs in there. You just put the gauges in. Somebody in another post suggested taking the blue bulb covers off of the bulbs that are in the gauge console now. Well I did and didn't really like how "non blue" they were. So I went and bought good quality glass blue bulbs and put them in.
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Originally posted by Tunez:
I had heard somewhere to take off the bulb covers to make them brighter. Well I did that and the blue seemed way dulled down. So I went to a local truck stop and they had lots of bulb colors. I replaced the 194's and the 168's with the dyed blue glass bulbs. The blue stands out WAYYYYY more than before now. Looks good and the mileage dials are now blue as well.
Random, if you read this can you look up in the manual and tell me and tell me the bulb numbers and quantities that are in the heater dials, clock, cruise control butons, and the foglights. I think there are some more right below the heater controls but I can't think of what they are.
I had heard somewhere to take off the bulb covers to make them brighter. Well I did that and the blue seemed way dulled down. So I went to a local truck stop and they had lots of bulb colors. I replaced the 194's and the 168's with the dyed blue glass bulbs. The blue stands out WAYYYYY more than before now. Looks good and the mileage dials are now blue as well.
Random, if you read this can you look up in the manual and tell me and tell me the bulb numbers and quantities that are in the heater dials, clock, cruise control butons, and the foglights. I think there are some more right below the heater controls but I can't think of what they are.
behind the climate control and such is all the 1/8's inch bulbs, are those the 168's? I've never found replacement bulbs for them.
I'll have to check to see how many there are...
BTW... I cheated and used blue bulb paint for the 1/8" bulbs and I found blue 194's for the big 1/4" bulbs.
[ October 10, 2001: Message edited by: Random ]
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DAMN!!! i took my dash apart 3 times already when i did my gauges. i always wanted to make them bulbs blue, just didn't want to paint them(they always peled on me). if i knew i could buy them already covered, i would have them in already 
oh well, guess i have to remove the dash a 4th time. sad.gif
p.s. thank god i found this place, i get so much info from u guys/gals here. this place is great.
sorry just had had to give thanks
later
oh well, guess i have to remove the dash a 4th time. sad.gif
p.s. thank god i found this place, i get so much info from u guys/gals here. this place is great.
sorry just had had to give thanks
later