On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > if your stock instrument light sockets are damaged or blown out...... > you can find some small socket..........like say the ones in the rear side > marker lights...... > drill some holes. or whatever, and arrange your own custom instrument > lights. > Just run wires from the light switch, or another good place. > For some reason, I like to wire the instrument lighting ( I like red light > in an o.p guage ) in oil pressure gauges to 'igntion on' voltage, so ithe > guage light on any time the engine is runing. Just get the right kind of > voltage from a proper place and rig something decent in there, even if home > made a bit. > > > Hey Scott. Thanks. Good ideas. The currently burned out idiot light bulb is not a priority, but maybe I'll set up something soon. And in looking for a specific thread on an LED instrument light build, found this. Check out PG 2: Pics showing how to swap in LED's to the Vanagon bulb base. Neat! Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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