DBMaster
04-08-2006, 03:49 PM
I took apart my instrument cluster for about the fourth time in 17 years to replace the D4 bulb. This time I replaced it with a blue LED and 1K Ohm resistor. The result was a nice teal colored frame around D4 instead of the usual green. Maybe now I won't have it burn out again for a long while.
Unfortunately, when replacing the screws that go behind the temperature and fuel gauges the brittle plastic risers cracked a little which allowed the metal inserts to twist and break the hair-thin copper winding wires. To make a long story short when I put the cluster back in and turned the key to ON the temp and fuel gauges went right to their topmost positions - SHIT!!
I played with some fine wire and the soldering iron for about two hours and ended up NOT being successful so it is off to the junkyard tomorrow to buy a cluster just to yank the temp/fuel gauge assembly.
On the off chance that I can't find one does anyone here have a cluster from which they are willing to sell me this assembly? On my cluster the needles for these gauges point to the middle rather than the outside. I would pay up to $20 and provide you with a UPS account number for shipping, or just give you $5 to ship priority mail. Good thing I have my girlfriends Civic in the garage. I could drive mine the way it is, but I am just too pissed off right now.
Moral of the story: Don't be an anal retentive weenie-boy and worry about something as trivial as the D4 light. Note to Honda: The shift indicator lights should have been LED's from the factory since one of them is on ALL THE TIME and requires a good amount of disassembly to replace!
If I had known about this I would have replaced the light with an LED the first time it burned out in 1996. SOAFS!!
Later, friends.
Unfortunately, when replacing the screws that go behind the temperature and fuel gauges the brittle plastic risers cracked a little which allowed the metal inserts to twist and break the hair-thin copper winding wires. To make a long story short when I put the cluster back in and turned the key to ON the temp and fuel gauges went right to their topmost positions - SHIT!!
I played with some fine wire and the soldering iron for about two hours and ended up NOT being successful so it is off to the junkyard tomorrow to buy a cluster just to yank the temp/fuel gauge assembly.
On the off chance that I can't find one does anyone here have a cluster from which they are willing to sell me this assembly? On my cluster the needles for these gauges point to the middle rather than the outside. I would pay up to $20 and provide you with a UPS account number for shipping, or just give you $5 to ship priority mail. Good thing I have my girlfriends Civic in the garage. I could drive mine the way it is, but I am just too pissed off right now.
Moral of the story: Don't be an anal retentive weenie-boy and worry about something as trivial as the D4 light. Note to Honda: The shift indicator lights should have been LED's from the factory since one of them is on ALL THE TIME and requires a good amount of disassembly to replace!
If I had known about this I would have replaced the light with an LED the first time it burned out in 1996. SOAFS!!
Later, friends.