Re: '51 300 Instrument Cluster Lights
Posted by Dave Merrick On 2010/11/16 7:41:01
Success!
I put the cluster back together last night. I even fixed the clock! I laid it in and put the lights in with a pigtail ground and HOLY SMOKES! This thing looks like a luxury automobile now!
I did do a small modification (May the Packard gods forgive me.)
On the fuel and temp gauges, the old orange arrows were very dingy and hard to see even when the units were out of the cluster in full sunlight. I thought to myself "how can I brighten these up? They are such fine print"
The Solution: I took an X-acto knife and very carefully scraped the paint off over the arrows. The arrows are now bare metal which is silver and have much more contrast. I left the dots on the fuel gauge alone and just did the arrows. Then I hit the gauge faces with some krylon clear so the newly exposed metal wouldn't rust/tarnish/darken.
The cluster really looks like a million bucks!
Pictures coming soon.
ps. yes, I've been using the correct bulbs the whole time.
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I put the cluster back together last night. I even fixed the clock! I laid it in and put the lights in with a pigtail ground and HOLY SMOKES! This thing looks like a luxury automobile now!
I did do a small modification (May the Packard gods forgive me.)
On the fuel and temp gauges, the old orange arrows were very dingy and hard to see even when the units were out of the cluster in full sunlight. I thought to myself "how can I brighten these up? They are such fine print"
The Solution: I took an X-acto knife and very carefully scraped the paint off over the arrows. The arrows are now bare metal which is silver and have much more contrast. I left the dots on the fuel gauge alone and just did the arrows. Then I hit the gauge faces with some krylon clear so the newly exposed metal wouldn't rust/tarnish/darken.
The cluster really looks like a million bucks!
Pictures coming soon.
ps. yes, I've been using the correct bulbs the whole time.
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