You could make sure the battery post terminals are clean and check the engine/chassis grounding post. But then there are plenty of old school mechanics that will tell you to hit things with a hammer first! By 'clutching at straws' you can do more expensive damage. Once you start seeing those kind of random dash light problems you need a known good battery and diagnostics to help you. In fact, even starting it with a totally dead battery is a big risk because the alternator is capable of producing high level damaging pulse spikes which are not smoothed by a flat or faulty battery. Whenever you jump start a modern car full of electronics you take risks. You clip the probes to the battery terminals and measure the voltage, then follow a number of scenarios of putting loads on and repeating. I find bright dashes to be distracting and annoying.Why don't you guys and gals with these types of problems go and buy a cheap digital multimeter? After all you have already bought an expensive car. I see all these people putting brighter bulbs in their dash - I would hate that! I turn the dash lights down in all my cars. Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain) ![]() ![]() Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education. It might also be useful to change one's vehicle map-reading lights and courtesy lights to red light for the same reason. This is why it is used on the bridge of ships at night, in submarines surfacing at night, hikers or special forces navigating at night and by astronomers checking their star charts. Owing to the fact that one's low-intensity night vision (the rods in the retina of one's eyes) is insensitive to red light, the red light does not affect one's dark-adapted night vision. I too would endorse using red light for night-time instrument illumination, especially when travelling on an unlit rural road with little traffic. Stop dead photo links! Post your photos to The Samba Gallery! If you think it's too stupid post it here Please don't PM technical questions, ask your problem in public so everyone can play along. Rust NEVER sleeps and stock never goes out of style. Turning CCW always works for me, some get real tight and require some force. Do I split the cluster? It’s plenty cold here so I do not want to go gorilla and snap it. I removed the four screws and the speedo cable, found the lights. You won't ruin them if hooked up backwards. but I can't fully pull out the instrument panel due to the vent levers.Īny advice on these levers? It looks like two large screws, or is this more to it than this? Posted: Thu 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: How to Replace Dashboard Lights Thanks on info for locating theese, one question if i hook them up backwards do i ruin them or do i just reverse the wires till i get it right " Travelling in a fried-out Kombi, on a hippie trail, head full of zombie." - Colin Hay and Ron Strykertġ969 Transporter, 1971 Westfalia, 1976, 1977, 1976, 1977, 1971, 1973, 1977 Westfalias,ġ979 Champagne Sunroof, 1974 Westfalia Automatic, 1979 Transporter, 1972 Sportsmobile, 1973 Transporter Wild Westerner, 1974 Westfalia parts bus, 1975 Mexican single cab *FOR SALE*, 1978 Irish 4-door double cab RHD For example, the alternator bulb would glow faintly all the time. I think the voltage draw is different enough that they don't behave right. For those, the old fashioned incandescent bulbs are better. However, I also tried the green ones for signals lights, and red ones for the oil pressure and alternator lights. Look for the instrument panel lights on this page: The LEDs are a direct replacement, though you do have to pay attention to the polarity of the bulb (that is, one way works and the other doesn't because, well, it's a diode). I replaced mine with red LEDs, so that at night I have red lights "in the cockpit", an idea I got from working at sea, where they use red lights on the bridge at night. You can also replace these with LED bulbs, which should last a long time, and be brighter. ![]() It's not the straight cut gears It's the T.A.R.D.I.S. 70 Westy, 2027cc "dual DRLA 40 m140 i55 wjdoc a165 p33 v30 "w100 straight cut 040 polished heads 1.25 rockers 1.5 A1sidewinder supertrapp muffler trans 091 coil SUM-850500 CDI universal svda Pertronix
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