From: D O (dohe69@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 08:20:26 PDT
One thing I did for my dash lights was to swap the 1873 bulb from the
blinding turn signal indicator with the stock 181? dash bulb. I am not sure
if the 1873 is standard for the turn signal indicator or not, but it helped
1/2 the dash. The bulb on the other side of the dash I swapped with the
flame heater monitor which happened to have an 1864 installed. Now I can
just barely see what my gauges say at night!
Will have to try the spacing trick too.
>From: "Bjorn Brandstedt" <super_deuce@hotmail.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] Dash lights
>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:31:27 -0400
>
>Here is a simple way to improve the visibility of the gauges at night.
>The instument panel has two covered light fixtures that illuminate the
>gauges for night time viewing. I noticed that the bulbs are not deep enough
>into the socket to give full brightness through the "windows" of the
>instruments. The filament of the bulbs is on the wrong side of the dash
>panel. By replacing the mounting screws for the light assemblies with
>longer ones and adding a 3/16" spacer between the inside of the dash and
>the light assy, the filament ends up almost entirely on the inside of the
>panel for much better illumination. Try it, it worked for me.
>Also, keep the dust off the "windows" (the slots behind the front panel) of
>the gauges.
>Bjorn
>.
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