Re: Wolfe restored Gauge Cluster

Posted by Packard Newbie On 2020/1/30 15:38:34

Pat, Not sure how happy you were/are with the illumination of the gauges (or if you've even evaluated them) but I found mine were hard to see at night. I did some rewiring on my various lights/switches this winter and swapped the standard #51 bulbs with # 55's and found they are significantly brighter. Obviously, the use a bit more juice, but in my case, I have isolated the map reading lights (both #55's) to the proper on/off switch on the dimmer assembly (before they were always on if the lights were on) and so the voltage consumption is pretty much a wash. The globe of the #55 is SLIGHTLY bigger, but didn't pose any problem with clearance. Just a suggestion - you may find on your clusters that they are bright enough. Chris.