What a fiddly job!-especially when you've got hands like a bunch of Fyffes bananas:hammer:

First off removed the Odo and corrected the mileage to the Kilometers on the car so all tallies up....

 

Started....

Chrome rings fitted,

 

Gauges back together and wires fed........

 

All done with the right mileage showing-just hope they work now! LOL!

 

 

The dimmer and inverter I'm going to stick behind the dash,use the cars dimmer instead.

Soz for the crap pics-I really need a new Camera!:whistling:

That looks great. Well done mate.

Nice one but how are you going to use the cars dimmer instead of the one that came with the dials?

It still turns on via the dash lights, so dim the dash lights, you dim the EL dials....simples (cant do the noise lol)

What a fiddly job!-especially when you've got hands like a bunch of Fyffes bananas:hammer:

First off removed the Odo and corrected the mileage to the Kilometers on the car so all tallies up....

 

Started....

Chrome rings fitted,

 

Gauges back together and wires fed........

 

All done with the right mileage showing-just hope they work now! LOL!

 

 

The dimmer and inverter I'm going to stick behind the dash,use the cars dimmer instead.

Soz for the crap pics-I really need a new Camera!:whistling:

 

Daz, dont forget you will still need bulbs/leds in the back of the dash to light the needles and odometer, also if you havent already, get rid of the 4 little dome bulbs in the front, bottom of the dash, to stop unwanted light.

It still turns on via the dash lights, so dim the dash lights, you dim the EL dials....simples (cant do the noise lol)

 

I thought that that only dims the bulbs behind the dash and doesn't affect the plasma brightness, or am I being stupid?

 

It doesn't work on my plasma clocks.

I thought that that only dims the bulbs behind the dash and doesn't affect the plasma brightness, or am I being stupid?

 

It doesn't work on my plasma clocks.

 

It depends how its been wired in, you either take a feed from one of the bulb holders or the 2 screws at the bottom of the dash. Yours may have been wired directly to the light feed on the pod, bypassing the dimmer system

Daz, dont forget you will still need bulbs/leds in the back of the dash to light the needles and odometer, also if you havent already, get rid of the 4 little dome bulbs in the front, bottom of the dash, to stop unwanted light.

 

Done and done!-took the blue 'nob-socks' off the bulbs tho',don't want brown needles!:chinese:

It depends how its been wired in, you either take a feed from one of the bulb holders or the 2 screws at the bottom of the dash. Yours may have been wired directly to the light feed on the pod, bypassing the dimmer system

 

Looks like a rewire job for me then :thumbdown: Cheers mate didn't realise that :thumbup1:

It depends how its been wired in, you either take a feed from one of the bulb holders or the 2 screws at the bottom of the dash. Yours may have been wired directly to the light feed on the pod, bypassing the dimmer system

 

I put crimp eyelets on the feed wires and fitted these to the 2 screws at the bottom.

Lol doesnt matter what color you use, the needles, believe it or not, will be red. Its the dye in the needle. albeit, different shades of red, depending on colour.

Edited February 10, 201114 yr by groover

Lol doesnt matter what color you use, the needles, believe it or not, will be red. Its the dye in the needle, albeit different shades of red, depending on colour

 

That's a bollicking for Boldy then!!:laugh:

Edited February 10, 201114 yr by groover

Did you let the glue go off over night on the rings, before putting the perspex back on?

Did you let the glue go off over night on the rings, before putting the perspex back on?

 

No glue on the rings mate,just bend the rear over on these.

cool, cos i didnt when i first did mine and wondered what all the white stuff was inside the dash perspex lol

looks good mate, good job :thumbup1:

nice one mate,

 

now get that engine rebuilt

Looking good mate. looks like a pig of a job

nice one mate,

 

now get that engine rebuilt

 

eh?-why what's wrong with it?:confused1:

opse

 

my bad, for some reason i read the v8 in your name and thought it was bantumbunny, in which case

 

nice job mate, oh and dont rebuild your engine :slap:

:lol::lol:

opse

 

my bad, for some reason i read the v8 in your name and thought it was bantumbunny, in which case

 

nice job mate, oh and dont rebuild your engine :slap:

 

That's o.k mate...........when I do rebuild, it won't be this engine!:sneaky2:

That's o.k mate...........when I do rebuild, it won't be this engine!:sneaky2:

 

oh oh :wacko: Not another yank tank conversion. Haven't you realised the japs make the best engines numb nuts :tongue_smilie::hang::tongue:

oh oh :wacko: Not another yank tank conversion. Haven't you realised the japs make the best engines numb nuts :tongue_smilie::hang::tongue:

 

Who mentioned yank?-dipshit!:tt2:

jap v8 ftw.

 

ive got a 1 uz im itching to fit

looks great,:thumbup: will you fit mines??:winkiss:

 

dan.:biggrin: