Hey I finally got my reverse glow gauges from procarparts off ebay. I followed the DIY from hzm82 and here's the link. https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...luster+removal
It was pretty easy to do but you better believe I was scared when I was putting the gauges around the needle. After I was done I went to fill my gas tank up and rode around checking everything. I have the pioneer that tells you how fast your going so I compared that. Everything works. Damn.. I feel like I accomplished something lol Almost forgot a pic of it.

 

There real nice i have them on my maxima and this is one mod i would do on the TL

 

how much were these? we could definately do mine together

 

Ive got the awesome ones from the old group buy. If i could ever find a ballast for them to make them work again id let them go for a great price.

 

Neat, I still need to do mine. You wanna help?

 

if only these came in km/h.

 

I find those gauges ugly, no offence.
I like the stock gauges with LED lights, I think it looks better and more classy.

 

yea i want to eventually do mine like OntarioTL's

 

All together I paid 44 and some change.

 

The best thing about these is that when I get tired I can take them off.

 

When I had my Nissan S14 it was a piece of cake to take off the gauges, how simple/hard to is remove the 2G TL gauges ?

 

yo kris do you have any pics of those gauges......i have a set of reverse glow gauges that i bought a while ago but the front face where the needle goes got cracked and it lights up brighter where the crack is....but maybe the transformer i have works on it......

 

a lokee99 are these the ones you got.....its hard to tell from the daytime pic

 

here are the group buy gauges -- straight outta that old school (sold them a few weeks ago)



these allow you to change the back color of the gauges -- to the indiglo that is shown from the ebay ones to a very nice blue. the GB gauges do not have light in the middle. i have pictures, somwhere...

 

Sorry for the blurry pics.














Also had it set up so that only the needles lit up

 

Yea those are it. I wouldn't mind having those ones fstty got. I like those

 

i like the one fsttyms1 has! Looks really nice although the first couple of ones looked too bright.

 

I had them for a while and they worked and looked nice. My only probelm was they kept coming up from the factory gauge and made my needles stick. Sometimes it was the speed, other times the gas, and once and a while it was the tach.

After taking it apart numerous times and even using super glue to hold them down I got sick of the hassle and got some TL S gauges and called it a day. I think I might have found replacement LED bulbs in various colors that will be direct drop in for the cluster. I have to check w/ a friend of mine in the next few days. When I know I'll make a general post for everyone. Should be much easier to mod the dash for those of us who don't know how to wire LEDS...

 

i have the same ones fro procarparts i love em

 

What kind of ballast does it use? Do you have the tech specs?

 

Part of that was just the camera. But with these you could adjust infinitely with them. You could dim them if you needed.

Has any one tried making just a small cut to the lead to the center ring so that it doesnt light up with this type??


I have no idea, there is no info on the ballast. I tried buying different types of glo gauges to see if i could use their ballast and they werea ll a no go

 

Part of that was just the camera. But with these you could adjust infinitely with them. You could dim them if you needed.

 

That is a good idea fsttyms1.... Maybe someone will try it.

 

Do you know the type of bulbs? Building a ballast is easy...the pain in the neck part is getting the windings correct in the high voltage transformer. Just need to know the operating voltage and the striking voltage.

If you can get the thing open, you could repair that ballast.

 

Bulbs there are no bulbs. Its the indaglo gauges. All i know is there is no writing or any thing on the ballast.

 

Ahhhh I see. That makes it even easier. It requires no current limiting.

Put 100-200 volts on it with a safety of like 5-10mA and see if it lights up

 

a kris i want dibs if you ever fix em or if the transformer i have works on it.....i have a set that i bought off of ebay.....the ones that came before those new ones like the one i posted previously........

 

None of the ballasts i tried will work. They are all 4 wire. The ones i have are 5 wire (for the controller) these gauges have alot of control over them. the whole thing is completely adjustable (as seen by the pics)

 

Ha....that's my look when you talk about rebuilding transmissions and swapping engines

If you can find the right pair of wires, stick a variac on it and raise the voltage until they light up. Then you can build your own ballast.

 

what about using the internals off the one i have.......?........

 

Theswe are not the sme ones that lokee got. These ones are like 10 bucks off ebay and are from jdm somethin. I looked at these and didn't like them so I got the ones from procarparts.

The ones from procarparts have red on the tach the "jdm" brand ones don't as seen in the pic.

 

Yea me and mechanical are good buddies. Me and electrical arent so good. Im not afraid to try stuff, and i have a limited knowledge of some things and can do some stuff, but when it comes to resistors and stuff i still havent fingered that stuff out yet

 

i dont know how they work and if it would

 

lokee99 said those are the ones......

 

I'm surprised the company doesn't let you purchase a new ballast...cut the wires, crimp on some butt connectors to the new ballast, seal with electrical tape.

 

I got it from procarparts and I will take a pic of the box it came in later when i get off work.

 

the ones in that pic are not from procarparts. Go to ebay and check it out you'll see the difference. Lokee said he got his from procarparts whicb is the same ones I have. The bottom fuel gage line is red, the top temp gage line is red, and in this pic of the spec racing one its not like that.

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, but if you were to order these I wouldn't want you to be dissapointed when you received something you didn't want.

 

well i see what your talking about but the ones i posted have the fuel & temp lines red....but either they don't light up or they are very dim....lokee99 can you post a night pic.....i think difference might be quality but they have the same color layout......

 

Okay here they are. When I was on Ebay I didn't like the one set they had. I didnt really wanna test it. So i got the ones from procarparts. The other ones didnt really show a good pic so i just paid more for the ones from procarparts.