| overdrive | -- 08-27-2019 @ 7:25 PM |
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my car is a 1950 Ford. I am installing a new ignition switch and also trying to find why the instrument lights don't work. It would be much easier to see if the speedometer was removed. Is this a major operation? Thanks for any guidance.
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| deluxe40 | -- 08-27-2019 @ 11:25 PM |
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Not worse than any other job under the dash of an old car. Be sure to disconnect the battery before starting. The cable and three or four screws will remove the speedometer. However, the reason your dash lights don't work is likely because the phosphorescent paint on the numerals has lost its glow. The dash light bulbs are covered with black light filters. You will likely have to remove the whole instrument cluster to remove the filters. You will have instrument lights then, but they won't be as pretty as they were originally. Some people replace the bulbs with green bulbs. Others replace the bulbs with high intensity LED bulbs that sometimes make the remaining phosphorescent paint glow again.
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| overdrive | -- 08-28-2019 @ 9:19 AM |
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Thanks very much for the information. I wonder if it's possible to recoat the numerals? Or is phosphorous now outlawed? Or would I have to get Rembrandt to do it?
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| JT Ford | -- 08-28-2019 @ 11:20 AM |
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Remove the speedo. You need a long screwdriver with a split end that will hold the screws to reinstall the speedo. You might get by with a standard screw driver but I didn't try it.... After removing the speedo you will have to bend the two lips that hold the black light lenses in place. Then bend the black background metal and using you finger pull the lenses out. Remove the snap in light sockets first. I removed two, then straighten the black metal up, its easy to do...Also so if the inside of the glass is dusty clean it now. Paint the bulbs, blue, green, what ever.....Problem gone! I've done two of them..
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