Weird dash lites

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In a message dated 1/12/01 10:19:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, JanDebL at aol.com 
writes:

> I have a 5KTQ in the shop with some weird dash lites.  The tach lites are 
>  very bright while the speedo, water temp and fuel gauge lites are much 
>  dimmer.  Knowing the cars owner, I doubt that someone changed out the 
>  dashlite bulbs.  Is there a resister that failed?  The owner didn't say 
>  anything about them or didn't want them fixed - I guess I'm just curious 
if 
>  anyone has seen this before.
>  Jan Lahtonen
>  


tT least on a 4kq, when one dash light burns out, the other bulb still throws 
light on the other half of the instrument cluster, creating a dimmer effect 
on the other side. Sometimes a good whack will get the other light to 
illuminate again, or a cleaning of the copper contacts for the blub itself in 
the cluster usually works for me. Steel wool or a metal dish scrubbie work 
well. Or, I suppose you could change the bulb too :^)

-w