guage lights removal?

[WandererS30]

my guage lights are very dim, so i want to replace them and clean the contacts.

I am wondering how do you remove the lights in the guages. i looked at them and i dont see how they come out. I am going to replace them with 3000+mcd red LED bulbs; any advice here?

[Bambikiller240]

They just snap into the back of the gauges. Getting to them is a bitch. Unless you have spaghetti arms, and eyes on the ends of your fingers.

If I was going to do what you plan, I'd pull the entire dash out to do it.

Just My $.02

[EScanlon]

They just snap into the back of the gauges. Getting to them is a bitch. Unless you have spaghetti arms, and eyes on the ends of your fingers.

If I was going to do what you plan, I'd pull the entire dash out to do it.

Just My $.02

DITTO!

With all the wire cutting and splicing and soldering etc, I doubt you'll do more than ONE, before you decide to pull the dash.

Enrique

[WandererS30]

... dash is already just sitting there.. took it out already. left it sitting on the mounts tho so i could keep the ignition hooked up

[TomoHawk]

All you need is to hook up a battery with patch cords to the dash harness so you can clean & test the lighting circuit. I've traced the lighting circuit on the wiring diagram for my 280Z and drew it up in a separate notebook (for future reference) so I can see the simplified circuit while I'm working on things. I've got a few circuits drawn up in there: fog lights, wipers, radio, dash lights...More as I need them

Do the other connections/circuits too? which circuits are there for you?