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turtles_ride
04-07-2005, 08:26 PM
Okay guys, i covered my 3 guage a-pillar to match the rest of the interior of my car. :thumb: The guages look pretty good in there, and the arm looks so much better now that it matches the passengers side arm in pattern again. My question is about the LED power in the autometer guages, which I haven't actually hooked up yet. The instructions say to attach it to the same power source that the dash guages are hooked upto, so that the LEDs aren't permanently on and so they dim the same as the cluster. Is there an easy way to take out the little piece in the dash that the actual brightness dial is on. Otherwise I'll have to pull out my whole cluster again and splice into the same wire that i hooked my dash LEDs to. Just wondering which is easier to do.
AleroBloke
04-07-2005, 08:45 PM
WTF is that dragon toothh saw looking mother trucker?
turtles_ride
04-07-2005, 08:48 PM
what do you mean? The pattern is actually blue flames if thats what your talkin about?
AleroBloke
04-07-2005, 08:50 PM
haha. it looks like it could stab something, maybe i'm just tired..hhahaha..looks neato though..good job
sound_xtreme
04-07-2005, 08:57 PM
just pop out the whole drivers side vent.
turtles_ride
04-07-2005, 08:58 PM
its just the regular a arm thats along the drivers side of the windshield, thats where the guages are so you can see them while your driving. I just stretched my fabric over it, it was actually really tricky because of all the crazy curves, and the holes where the quages go in. Anybody know about the power?
turtles_ride
04-07-2005, 08:59 PM
how do i pop out that vent, and once its out how do i get to the light dial?
sound_xtreme
04-07-2005, 09:02 PM
the dial is attached to the vent, carefully use a flat head screw driver, that one is the easiest to get out of all the vents tho
turtles_ride
04-15-2005, 07:38 PM
well guages are in, and power is hooked up but i'm having some problems.
1st my A/f ratio is dimmer then the other 2 which are really bright, anyone know what resistors i should put on the other 2 to take down the voltage a bit.
2nd my a/f is jumpin all over the place, what should i do, i remember reading about this probem but can't find it in the search.