97-03 Cluster Gauge LED Install

[Bronco Boy]

I got some of the DD HP3 bulbs months ago, and finally got around to installing them.....







Very happy with the outcome, except now my "dimly lit" signal indicators are brighter.....







And a picture with the signal on showing how "dim" the indicators are.....

[The Guz]

I got some of the DD HP3 bulbs months ago, and finally got around to installing them.....




Very happy with the outcome, except now my "dimly lit" signal indicators are brighter.....




And a picture with the signal on showing how "dim" the indicators are.....

Did you ever get this figured out? I run Diode Dynamics LEDs on the front and rear exterior lights and the LED flasher. Mine were lit up on the actual HUD. The LED flasher did not fix the issue. I actually had to install a load resistor on each corner light which fixed that as well as my cruise control as I have diode dynamics LED's in the third brake light location.

The only thing that I have right now that is funky is that the LED below the PRND321 location blinks when I have the turn signal activated during the day. Once I turn the lights on at night that issue goes away. So there is feedback coming from somewhere.

[Bronco Boy]

Did you ever get this figured out?

I never did figure this one out.

I run Diode Dynamics LEDs on the front and rear exterior lights and the LED flasher. Mine were lit up on the actual HUD. The LED flasher did not fix the issue. I actually had to install a load resistor on each corner light which fixed that as well as my cruise control as I have diode dynamics LED's in the third brake light location.

Yikes. So you did get the cruise control issue.

The only thing that I have right now that is funky is that the LED below the PRND321 location blinks when I have the turn signal activated during the day. Once I turn the lights on at night that issue goes away. So there is feedback coming from somewhere.

I feel lucky not to have had this issue. LOL

[The Guz]

Yikes. So you did get the cruise control issue.

Yeah I did have the cruise control issue. Put the load resistors on even though I already had the LED flasher and everything worked like normal.

I wonder if load resistors would solve the issue you have.

[Bronco Boy]

I wonder if load resistors would solve the issue you have.

Maybe, but I don't do load resistors; defeats the main purpose of LED's. I suspect that if I put a resistor on each light to drain the extra power I might be ok, like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbP-pt4aczs

[97gtp01gt99gt]

How did u get the 04 needles to work properly

[arowse85]

How did u get the 04 needles to work properly

I'm not sure what you mean by "work properly", but it's a really easy swap. You'll need to trim the stems to the same length as the stock needle stems and make sure you don't push them down too far so they don't catch, but other than that, there's not much to it. Just mark where the stock needles are at idle, carefully pop them off (I used a fork and gently rocked it back and forth to pop them off), and put the new needles on pointing to where you marked them.