Ross, great pics and thanks. Your clusters look exactly like mine. I think I mentioned before that the front view on mine has two illumination bulbs for the clock cluster, one for the speedometer cluster and one for the fuel/temp/battery cluster. Total of four. I have the bulbs that light up for high beam, battery, temp and turn signal working. Looking at my clusters I had assumed that the speedometer and the fuel/temp/battery would have two illumination bulbs each instead of one. It appears not. So based on what I mention above all of mine are working properly right? Again thanks David

Ross, are you familiar with the these clusters? Are there 6 bulbs or 4 bulbs? Based on the way they look, to me, there should be 6 bulbs. but based on the diagram HH56 sent me there appears to be only 4 bulbs. I have this same diagram in my service manual, but the diagram does not show a speedometer just the fuel/temp cluster and clock cluster. I have crawed under there but its hard to see and tell. David

Lol now I'm missing something. I thought based on the diagram there is only one light holder for the speedmeter, which is on the right side of the cluster. And only a total of four light for all three clusters. Money is not an object. The mechanic installed new wiring harnesses and I was just surprised that only one side of the speedmeter cluster lit up.

Again thanks, the speedmeter only has one light shining in it's cluster (on the right side of the cluster) same with the fuel and temp guage (on the left sie of the cluster). Sad, but now I know.

Again thanks. My hi beam and turn signal lights are present. So it sounds like there are only four cluster lights for the three clusters. The two lights for the clock are great, just not the one light for the fuel cluster and the one for the speed cluster. Oh well. I wanted to learn this prior to contacting my classic car mechanic here in Dallas, since I had new 6v wiring harnesses made in CA and my local mechanic (first time I used him) very recently installed these harnesses. My wiring was the orginal and all my lights were dim especially the cluster lights. David

Thanks Howard. I have this diagram in the shop manual but i'm scratching my head trying to figure it out, because I do not see a speedmeter cluster in the diagram??The red circles on the diagram it appears to indicate that there are only 4 lights in these clusters, but again i do not see the speedmeter cluster.

Hey Packard lovers. My 51 Pack 250 instrument cluster ( 3 clusters). I'm trying to figure out how many lights - light up my clusters. I assume two lights per cluster, meaning six total. My far right cluster (clock) I can see two lights (one on the left side and one on the right side working). The middle cluster -speedometer only lights up on the right side of the cluster and the far left cluster - fuel gage only lights up on the left side of the cluster. I have the 51-54 Packard service manual and the basic operating guide, but can't seem to find the answer. Thanks

I have a great mechanic in Dallas, but he stays very busy and it is hard pressed to get my 51 Pack in. Can anyone recommend a mechanic in the Dallas area for my Packard?
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