@@marcoaguilar4723 is you follow the link at the top of this post it will take you to a video that has a list of cluster repair technicians by location in the description.
Great video with clear explanation of the process and product. Also I've watched a lot of your cluster repair videos older to new and I like the microscope viewing you added. Keep up the great work!
I absolutely love doing this kind of stuff. I took apart my buddies gauge cluster and did his backlights for him. Given a 2005 Silverado cluster is much easier, but I still had a blast
Got my Kingbright LEDs in today! Was very surprised at how small that they were. They were only about 0.10 " square! I guess the microscope really made them seem much larger than they are. Very excited for the Mosfet to arrive and to make the repair and the swap.
Hi jeff awesome channel. Quick question probably a dumb one but ill ask anyway. If i wanted to add a Led my car somewhere and i was using ohms law to figure out what size resistore i need what voltage do i use for the calculation. Would i use just 12 volts or 12.6 for where my battery usually is when i start the car or do i us 14 since thats what the alternator is putting out once the car is running. Ive tried to search the web for the answer but no luck.
this seems pretty common with several makes and models. I repaired many but never really had time to trace down what was causing them to fail so often. I repaired some that were only 15-18 months old, but had over 100k miles so it wasnt covered under warranty. i do like the VFD displays tho.
Bro... thank you! This is hands down the best video description of doing an instrument cluster, period !!! Jeff I sincerely appreciate you sharing all the information and not just parts of info. I need to ask, do you have a patron account?
Noticed that cluster already had LED in it. Where those OEM? Most videos I've seen are regular incandescent. I'd imagine installing the LEDs you used on one of the incandescent boards would require limiting resistors right?
Really enjoy your videos and I might have to see about sending a cluster out of my 2001 silverado to you sometime. For some reason it will be working fine then will suddenly go back into power up like it does when you first cycle the key on. I suspect probably a broken solder joint just from learning from your videos. Two questions, is there any way that you could do a video on how the displays work on the GM products? I think it would be a neat thing to find out how they work, and could you recommend to me a good blue LED replacement for my dash backlighting? After seeing this backlighting I might like to do a blue backlighting on my truck as well. I understand that on the 01 truck that the backlighting is just plug and play but I would really like to have your opinion on which LED upgrade bulb to use.
Has anyone thought about a filter for the ELD's to make them look Blue too? I doubt I would want to replace them just for a color swap but was wondering if anyone found a blue gel or filter to change the color from aqua to more of a blue color?
I have emailed you. I have a 2005 cluster 1500 chevy never been repaired to my knowledge. Cluster has all bad stepper motors lights are burned out oil stepper doesnt work. It's a nightmare. Would be a good video to demonstrate how to tell good from bad and do a full build. Thanks for your videos I just purchased a solder sucker it works great.
Hey Jeff. Unpopular request or question but do the LEDs come in purple? I'd like convert all the aqua light displays in the truck cab to a deep purple color. Not the pink.
The problem with that is the ones that come out to a deep purple after passing the face, are typically listed as pink. I actually really like the pink in the 07+, looks like neon glow.
Great repairs and videos! Years back I did cluster repairs on Chrysler products and they had tons of environmental temperature problems. Use to put radio in homemade boxes and used a heat gun to heat up the units to find the intermittent problems. I never had customer repairs, they were mostly factory warranties! Feel for you, but money is Mon right? Cheers!
I'm trying to power up a cluster out if the truck, to check mileage. What wires do I need for ground a what wires do I add power to? I have the original plug cut out of the truck.
Just a quick question, I just done this to my gauge cluster and I can’t get my needles set properly, they seem to be set good and I drive it once and they go below 0 and I have to try and set them, how do I set them properly?
If you don't mark the starting position before dissembly I would recommend to power the cluster up without any signals coming in to find the home start position and seat the needles then.
If your not setup for electric calibration (seating needles at powered up zero state) you need to mark the starting location and re-seat the needles at that point.
For small surface mount stuff a $45 cheapy from eBay or Amazon will work fine. If you want to do large BGA chips like GPUs / CPUs or work on boards that have lots of copper ground planes then you will want a larger 1000 watt style like a quick or attn.
Hello, I have contacted you before about replacing the cluster lights in 2005 Chevy trailblazer to blue. I can't seem to find that conversation. Please let me know again how to reach you. Thank you
Excuse me sir I wanted to ask you a question I haven’t figured it out in months or online, I can’t find the data line for this year cluster can you please help me?
Any idea why the mosfet fails? It does bother me if that's all that was changed unless the replacement has better specs that addresses the failure. Perhaps whatever is supposed to suppress kickback from the transformer has gone bad.
The easy assumption is that the engineers under spec'd the part. But I've noticed a pattern with terrible solder joints. If you look closely the MOSFET heat sink tab solder joint it fractured and comes right off the board.
@@jeffescortlx Which raises the question if the solder joint is the cause it or is the solder joint the result of the mosfet overheating. It might be interesting to scope that out and make sure everything is well within what the replacement can handle. I'm wondering if it's possible the voltages rise as the display ages and causes more kickback to the mosfet. Or perhaps a high voltage until the display filament warms up.
@@russellhltn1396 your right, it's hard to tell what happened first: bad solder joint cause fet to fail, or burned up fet cause solder joint to fail. But what I can go off of is experience. I haven't had any bounce back. I make sure to have a nice healthy solder joint, especially on the heat sink tab. So far so good.
I was wondering if it’s possible to change the digital displays on the bottom , I was wanting to go to purple I saw another comment where you said to get one that has the color you want already built in, but all my research just leads to the background overlays not the digital part with different colors any idea how to find them online?
You have to use color transparency film. Some aftermarket faces have the color transparency film built in. For example since the display is green, and let's say you wanted to make it white, you have to use a red color transparency to make it look white.
My Cadillac Escalade ESV, after a full battery drain and a jump, now has no backlight whatsoever in cluster panel. Instead the four needles are constantly flashing blue, on and off at 1/sec rate! Some one told me to remove fuse 46, run the engine and put it back. It worked and I got my cluster backlight. But unfortunately, one a subsequent battery drainage, I Have the same problem and that procedure does not work anymore. Do you know what has happened and Do you think there is anything blown on the motherboard or still a relay or fuse or bad connection or an unsync cycle? PLEASE Help if you can.
Do you have a shop or something? I have an 04 Silverado that I have never been able to part with bc of my attachment to it and the cluster is all kinds of messed up :]
jeffescortlx well, if you’re ever available to take on another cluster, I’d love to get details on how to keep my truck’s display alive... I completely understand if you’re busy, but if you ever have time... my email is jsbldzn@gmail.com. Thank you for always having informative videos :)
@@baldybald100 my email is listed under my channel about tab. Track me down in the next couple days and I should be able to take repairs back in again.
@Jeff awhile back I commented in a video and asked about what kind of LED bulbs you used for the 04 Chevy Tahoe Dash Cluster assemblies. You replied but I forgot to write it down but the history in CZcams won't let me go back that far. Also if you have the manual control knobs for the dial climate which were manual what bulbs can one use for those or would the same one work? Also where do you get the servo motors or stepper motors as I believe their called? Thanks for the great Vids and good narration. If you have time sometime maybe if you could create a smaller length video describing your procedures doing your soldering, equipment, parts used and why (quality/etc) vs other brands. Also some of the tools you use such as the solder sucker and the good types ajd types to stay away from. Keep up the great Vids!
I order my stepper motors from a supplier located in Shen Zhen. But if you only need enough to do one cluster they wouldn't work for you as they deal in large quantities by the rack. Most of my videos list my tools in the video description. But not this video, because this video is for a different cluster generation.
@@jeffescortlx Hey, Jeff thanks for that. I'll probably have to find some good stepper motors off eBay or something. I get Leary but if it does what it should then I'd be fine. Browsing the Mouser site I've come to realize it's a very large website. Is there a certain link or part number you have for the led lights that you use for replacement? Hopefully the ones in the dash cluster, the headlight switch and HVAC control board in the manual dual zone HVAC. That would be helpful to find a part number for the LED chips/bulbs? I may or may have not mentioned but before I repair mine I plan on getting a used board from the junkyard to practice my skills. I don't have the automatic solder sucker but have a manual one which should be enough I think for doing my LED bulbs in my various switches, cluster, etc
@@dtnel yes I saw you mentioned that you were buying a practice board. I am curious of what they will charge you. Junk yards are good at knowing what parts are valuable and high in demand. GM clusters are one of those things. My local junk yard gets $175 for them. Sorry I don't have a mouser link for you, I buy my parts at high volume directly from the manufacturer over seas.
jeffescortlx Maybe a dead board would be the way to go because as you stated used boards are expensive. I found these bulbs in this generation of board you’re working on as there’s about 40 that mouser lists when I searched 604-AA3528... It shows some as cut tape but if I want to buy a lot then I could go with the reel but that’s to many lights. I need to do some more searching in your videos and see if you listed the part number as you did in this video. Picked up a scope a couple weeks ago. Need to change some things around in garage to make room for it and have workspace. I’ll go poke around your 04 style videos to see if I can find the bulb type. It’s the breaks of being new to this part of stuff in automotive repair. Funny thing is my 06 impala has no backlight issues (knock on wood) but the Tahoe has plenty in the dash cluster, light switch, 4wd switch, manual heat backlighting. They must’ve used some bad suppliers at that time, tech changed in 2 years obviously.
I tried doing this myself and I got about half the lights to work, I keep trying to get the others to work and sometimes I can fix it but a few are giving me a really hard time. What could I be doing wrong? Or did I possibly break the board?
You could have the polarity wrong, using the wrong pads, causing a short across the pads, or you damaged the board. All just speculating without seeing it.
@@jeffescortlx one of the spots for the leds does seem burnt out, my iron is a bit too hot but I didn't even think of polarities. So if I flip the ones that aren't working around, could that solve it? Since I've posted the comment I've gotten two more to work
The surface tension of the melted solder helps hold the parts in place even when the solder is melted. They will normally stay put as long as the airflow isn't too much or bumped into too hard.
I guess you could if you really tried. They won't fit very well, you'll have to bend the lead straight out and make it as flat as possible. And then I hope that it clears the middle white reflector layer. But usually 5 mm LEDs focus a light forward in a beam rather than spread it out like a surface mount, so you might get really bright spots directly underneath the LEDs.
@@jeffescortlx Nice, can you make it even brighter than your video? I would want the brightest possible. So I ship you mine and you ship it back? What's the turn around time? Thanks!
@@jubileechevalier1253 the LED's I use match OEM brightness pretty well. But my camera has a hard time showing what it really looks like. My contact information can be found here: czcams.com/video/T_2WnJMsZaU/video.html
I've got an 07 dodge magnum sxt that has gone dim and lost a light in the display below the tach ,could you please send me a link i need it gone through
@@jeffescortlx all my research says it is the electric version as far as the display goes I'm not sure if the bulbs can be user replaced I've gotten answers saying both and i haven't opened it up to see
I have checked every fuse I can possibly I don't understand it to be honest I can turn my dimmer switch down end up in the mileage per hour gets brighter and dimmer but my back lights that show how fast flicker on and off but thank you for replying
Question; my check engine light is out but the obd ll is saying bulb is out and I was wondering how can I change it to make it come on I have 07 Chevy impala
@@dare2bdifferentkustomz The previous owner didn't want to fix whatever was wrong with the car to cause the check engine light to come on. So they may have covered up the light or they could have smashed it off the circuit board, we won't know until the clusters is taken apart to see how it was damaged.
@@dare2bdifferentkustomz you have three options. Attempt to repair it yourself. Or if you're not comfortable with this sort of repair you can send it out for repair, or you can find a used junkyard replacement and just deal with whatever the odometer reading change says.
Can we send you an instrument cluster on a 2007 gmc sierra new body stly z71 to upgrade to LED along with also sending you a Z71 Z71 TRUCK CARBON FIBER CLUSTER GAUGE FACE INLAY... Will it still work as normal, Our project truck has the full Z71 package, denali 08 package etc etc not that any of that matters but just wondering please get back to us and let us know, Great channel and videos you are inspiring - Savvy Turtle
I agree the blue looks better than the aqua but not something I would bother with unless the cluster needed other work. My spare car has red back lighting and on a long drive at night it really gets bothersome on the eyes. Honestly, why would anyone think bright red instruments in your face at night is a good idea ? At least the aqua is easy on the eyes.
@@jeffescortlx I can't speak for the logic in submarines for red ambient lighting, perhaps it's different when the whole room is lit with red ambient light. Imagine if the entire control room was dark except for one bright red light source. For me at least, the red cluster being the only source of red light in the car just seems annoying especially if you're driving for hours. My daily has blue and it's quite comfortable. Unfortunately, in the spare car, the back lighting is incandescent with red filters which would mean removing the filters leaving the lighting white and probably uneven. I'd certainly change to blue if I could find good led replacements for the incandescent lamps. As you've said, there are many replacement leds on ebay but all cheap unrefined Chinesium. BTW, I love the microscope and it's not as expensive as I thought it would be.
For contact information follow this link:
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I Have a 2012 chevy 2500hd how much do you charge for the LED install.
@@williamginn6126 you can send me a email for a quote. Thank you.
What’s the part number for white led from mouser?
Where are you located at???
@@marcoaguilar4723 is you follow the link at the top of this post it will take you to a video that has a list of cluster repair technicians by location in the description.
What marks you as a professional is how easy you make it look. Thank you for sharing.
Great video with clear explanation of the process and product. Also I've watched a lot of your cluster repair videos older to new and I like the microscope viewing you added. Keep up the great work!
Amazing. This is a $350 job in my area. You explained everything from model numbers, LED's, how to do it all. Your awesome man.
I absolutely love doing this kind of stuff. I took apart my buddies gauge cluster and did his backlights for him. Given a 2005 Silverado cluster is much easier, but I still had a blast
Got my Kingbright LEDs in today! Was very surprised at how small that they were. They were only about 0.10 " square! I guess the microscope really made them seem much larger than they are. Very excited for the Mosfet to arrive and to make the repair and the swap.
Mouser LED.. not eBay Chinese knockoffs. That's how you know this is a pro.
This guy right here is the real deal.
Great Video! Very professional hand work and your work output is excellent quality!! Liked !
I have been waiting for someone to do this in you tube thank you so much, I hate the OEM cluster color with a passion
Jeff, Thank You for this great video
Great repair. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome work Sir. Thank you very much.
AWESOME CONTENT!!! please do more for 2010Escalade?? Can you do the light swap on the buttons for the lock, windows and ac controls?
Very nice! thanks for the information.
Excellent video
Very informative
How much would you charge to change leds from the factory green to purple in a 2008 Chevy hhr
Hi jeff awesome channel. Quick question probably a dumb one but ill ask anyway. If i wanted to add a Led my car somewhere and i was using ohms law to figure out what size resistore i need what voltage do i use for the calculation. Would i use just 12 volts or 12.6 for where my battery usually is when i start the car or do i us 14 since thats what the alternator is putting out once the car is running. Ive tried to search the web for the answer but no luck.
hey jeff do you have a link where i can buy the mosfet? or which type is it?
You put the same mosfet or better rated? I think these problems are caused by underrated part.
this seems pretty common with several makes and models. I repaired many but never really had time to trace down what was causing them to fail so often. I repaired some that were only 15-18 months old, but had over 100k miles so it wasnt covered under warranty. i do like the VFD displays tho.
I like VFD displays too. They have a certain character to them.
Bro... thank you! This is hands down the best video description of doing an instrument cluster, period !!! Jeff I sincerely appreciate you sharing all the information and not just parts of info. I need to ask, do you have a patron account?
Thank you for the positive reply. I do not have a patron account at this time.
Noticed that cluster already had LED in it. Where those OEM? Most videos I've seen are regular incandescent.
I'd imagine installing the LEDs you used on one of the incandescent boards would require limiting resistors right?
Why is the mosfet such a high failure item and is the replacement better or same as factory?
Jeff. Is it possible to reprogram a 2009 Chevy Suburban cluster? Mine is missing the Relearn Keyless Remote feature.
Great job👍🏻
what do you charge to do much truck 2004 Silverado in the blue led?
Really enjoy your videos and I might have to see about sending a cluster out of my 2001 silverado to you sometime. For some reason it will be working fine then will suddenly go back into power up like it does when you first cycle the key on. I suspect probably a broken solder joint just from learning from your videos. Two questions, is there any way that you could do a video on how the displays work on the GM products? I think it would be a neat thing to find out how they work, and could you recommend to me a good blue LED replacement for my dash backlighting? After seeing this backlighting I might like to do a blue backlighting on my truck as well. I understand that on the 01 truck that the backlighting is just plug and play but I would really like to have your opinion on which LED upgrade bulb to use.
You could just have a failing ground wire. Common in the 99-02.
Has anyone thought about a filter for the ELD's to make them look Blue too? I doubt I would want to replace them just for a color swap but was wondering if anyone found a blue gel or filter to change the color from aqua to more of a blue color?
What's the liquid you applied? Outstanding video. I did this to my 04 Silverado, but want to do this to my 07 tahoe dash
Rubbing alcohol for cleaning
Great job...where can I get a replacement mosfet?
Mouser, digi-key, Newark or any place that sells semiconductors. In one of my other videos covering this I think there is a link in the description.
Definitely the two soldering irons
Can you give me a hint on what kind of led is used for the brights back light
The high beam indicator?
I have emailed you. I have a 2005 cluster 1500 chevy never been repaired to my knowledge. Cluster has all bad stepper motors lights are burned out oil stepper doesnt work. It's a nightmare. Would be a good video to demonstrate how to tell good from bad and do a full build. Thanks for your videos I just purchased a solder sucker it works great.
Can you get the king bright in purple?
Out of curiosity how much does a repair like this cost?
Hey Jeff. Unpopular request or question but do the LEDs come in purple? I'd like convert all the aqua light displays in the truck cab to a deep purple color. Not the pink.
The problem with that is the ones that come out to a deep purple after passing the face, are typically listed as pink. I actually really like the pink in the 07+, looks like neon glow.
Great repairs and videos! Years back I did cluster repairs on Chrysler products and they had tons of environmental temperature problems. Use to put radio in homemade boxes and used a heat gun to heat up the units to find the intermittent problems. I never had customer repairs, they were mostly factory warranties! Feel for you, but money is Mon right? Cheers!
Cheers!
Any way to change all the real color on the cluster, including the PRND321 and the DIC display?
Yes, with color transparency film.
I'm trying to power up a cluster out if the truck, to check mileage. What wires do I need for ground a what wires do I add power to? I have the original plug cut out of the truck.
I don't remember just going off memory. But if you Google the wiring diagram connector you can find the pin out, that's how I did it.
What do you charge for this exact issue...I would like the same LEDs as well as fix the display
Around 150 plus shipping
How many leds lights did the cluater take
Just a quick question, I just done this to my gauge cluster and I can’t get my needles set properly, they seem to be set good and I drive it once and they go below 0 and I have to try and set them, how do I set them properly?
If you don't mark the starting position before dissembly I would recommend to power the cluster up without any signals coming in to find the home start position and seat the needles then.
When you add the needles again do you turn them all the way to the left. I swapped mine but now they are of-center
If your not setup for electric calibration (seating needles at powered up zero state) you need to mark the starting location and re-seat the needles at that point.
Thank you! I will do that!
I need to get my first hot air station. Do you have any recommendations or any general advice with picking one?
For small surface mount stuff a $45 cheapy from eBay or Amazon will work fine. If you want to do large BGA chips like GPUs / CPUs or work on boards that have lots of copper ground planes then you will want a larger 1000 watt style like a quick or attn.
If you wanted the digital display color to match how would you do that or is that not possible?
Color transparency film.
Your links aren’t available could you repost them?
So the warning lights sre the same bulb also im trying to figure out how many to order and are they they same sz
They are also a 3528
I wouldn't want to attempt doing this but I sure would like to have it done by you .! How do I get a hold of you ? Thanks in advance .
The sticky post comment (the one right next to this one) has a link to contact information.
Hello, I have contacted you before about replacing the cluster lights in 2005 Chevy trailblazer to blue. I can't seem to find that conversation. Please let me know again how to reach you. Thank you
My email address is available under the "about" tab on my channel page.
Mine has a speedo that is stuck at 30 or 20. Is this a common issue? Should I get the whole thing redone?
For a 2007 classic? Yes. For a 2007 NBS, no.
great video thanks
What do you use to clean it up after you are done i had never seen that just started watching your videos sorry
Rubbing alcohol.
I would like to know what wires you use to give the cluster power? can’t find it anywhere on the web.
Pin 1 & 5 12v, pin 13 ground.
@@jeffescortlx thank you
Hi how can I send you mine is for 07 Tahoe I need to upgrade with blue led and the RPM is not working
Email reply sent.
If i do not have a pc. How can i reach you. I have a 2006Chevy silverado. With error message on the odometer. I cannot fix it
If you can leave your email I can get in touch and send you information.
What kind I do if I cant see the mileage and my gear selector
A: repair it yourself.
B: have someone else repair it.
Excuse me sir I wanted to ask you a question I haven’t figured it out in months or online, I can’t find the data line for this year cluster can you please help me?
Pin 6, green wire if I remember correctly.
jeffescortlx thank you
How do you make the obd2 work to read the cluster
Connect the serial bus wire.
It has probably been asked a hundred times before but - are there schematics for these clusters?
Not that I've found. I just have my own personal reverse engineereed sketches.
What leds did you use for the white leds in the other videos?
There's more information on the LEDs used in the description of this video.
Is there any way to contact you i have got some question to ask maybe you you can help ty
Any idea why the mosfet fails? It does bother me if that's all that was changed unless the replacement has better specs that addresses the failure. Perhaps whatever is supposed to suppress kickback from the transformer has gone bad.
Design team chose underrated component or there are design problems like no snubber network. That comes to my head right now
The easy assumption is that the engineers under spec'd the part. But I've noticed a pattern with terrible solder joints. If you look closely the MOSFET heat sink tab solder joint it fractured and comes right off the board.
@@jeffescortlx Which raises the question if the solder joint is the cause it or is the solder joint the result of the mosfet overheating. It might be interesting to scope that out and make sure everything is well within what the replacement can handle. I'm wondering if it's possible the voltages rise as the display ages and causes more kickback to the mosfet. Or perhaps a high voltage until the display filament warms up.
@@russellhltn1396 your right, it's hard to tell what happened first: bad solder joint cause fet to fail, or burned up fet cause solder joint to fail. But what I can go off of is experience. I haven't had any bounce back. I make sure to have a nice healthy solder joint, especially on the heat sink tab. So far so good.
What wires do you connect to the multimeter
The meter test leads.
I was wondering if it’s possible to change the digital displays on the bottom , I was wanting to go to purple I saw another comment where you said to get one that has the color you want already built in, but all my research just leads to the background overlays not the digital part with different colors any idea how to find them online?
You have to use color transparency film. Some aftermarket faces have the color transparency film built in. For example since the display is green, and let's say you wanted to make it white, you have to use a red color transparency to make it look white.
@@jeffescortlx so overlap with a different color to make it look purple
My Cadillac Escalade ESV, after a full battery drain and a jump, now has no backlight whatsoever in cluster panel. Instead the four needles are constantly flashing blue, on and off at 1/sec rate!
Some one told me to remove fuse 46, run the engine and put it back.
It worked and I got my cluster backlight. But unfortunately, one a subsequent battery drainage, I Have the same problem and that procedure does not work anymore.
Do you know what has happened and Do you think there is anything blown on the motherboard or still a relay or fuse or bad connection or an unsync cycle? PLEASE Help if you can.
I'm sorry but at this time I don't know how to fix that particular problem.
Can you do stepper motor replacement as well?
Depends, what year range are you asking about? The NBS 07+ don't fail like the 03-06 do
Do you have a shop or something? I have an 04 Silverado that I have never been able to part with bc of my attachment to it and the cluster is all kinds of messed up :]
I don't have a "shop". But I do have a office with a work bench and tools.
jeffescortlx well, if you’re ever available to take on another cluster, I’d love to get details on how to keep my truck’s display alive... I completely understand if you’re busy, but if you ever have time... my email is jsbldzn@gmail.com. Thank you for always having informative videos :)
@@baldybald100 my email is listed under my channel about tab. Track me down in the next couple days and I should be able to take repairs back in again.
jeffescortlx thank you! :)
Blessings brother what's the cost of that repair on that 2007 cluster
My contact information can be found by following the link in the top pinned comment I'd be happy to send you a quote.
How do I get in touch for a quote for my cluster on a 03 Tahoe
My email is listed under my channel about tab.
question..... so do you provide this service for folks that cant do it themselves?
Yes
What’s is the think you use to glue the Leds and to remove the old ones call
No glue. They removed with a soldering iron and installed with solder and a soldering iron with flux.
Thank you ima look in to it looks badass tbh
@Jeff awhile back I commented in a video and asked about what kind of LED bulbs you used for the 04 Chevy Tahoe Dash Cluster assemblies. You replied but I forgot to write it down but the history in CZcams won't let me go back that far.
Also if you have the manual control knobs for the dial climate which were manual what bulbs can one use for those or would the same one work?
Also where do you get the servo motors or stepper motors as I believe their called?
Thanks for the great Vids and good narration.
If you have time sometime maybe if you could create a smaller length video describing your procedures doing your soldering, equipment, parts used and why (quality/etc) vs other brands. Also some of the tools you use such as the solder sucker and the good types ajd types to stay away from. Keep up the great Vids!
I order my stepper motors from a supplier located in Shen Zhen. But if you only need enough to do one cluster they wouldn't work for you as they deal in large quantities by the rack.
Most of my videos list my tools in the video description. But not this video, because this video is for a different cluster generation.
@@jeffescortlx Hey, Jeff thanks for that. I'll probably have to find some good stepper motors off eBay or something. I get Leary but if it does what it should then I'd be fine.
Browsing the Mouser site I've come to realize it's a very large website. Is there a certain link or part number you have for the led lights that you use for replacement? Hopefully the ones in the dash cluster, the headlight switch and HVAC control board in the manual dual zone HVAC. That would be helpful to find a part number for the LED chips/bulbs?
I may or may have not mentioned but before I repair mine I plan on getting a used board from the junkyard to practice my skills. I don't have the automatic solder sucker but have a manual one which should be enough I think for doing my LED bulbs in my various switches, cluster, etc
@@dtnel yes I saw you mentioned that you were buying a practice board. I am curious of what they will charge you. Junk yards are good at knowing what parts are valuable and high in demand. GM clusters are one of those things. My local junk yard gets $175 for them. Sorry I don't have a mouser link for you, I buy my parts at high volume directly from the manufacturer over seas.
jeffescortlx Maybe a dead board would be the way to go because as you stated used boards are expensive.
I found these bulbs in this generation of board you’re working on as there’s about 40 that mouser lists when I searched 604-AA3528... It shows some as cut tape but if I want to buy a lot then I could go with the reel but that’s to many lights.
I need to do some more searching in your videos and see if you listed the part number as you did in this video.
Picked up a scope a couple weeks ago. Need to change some things around in garage to make room for it and have workspace.
I’ll go poke around your 04 style videos to see if I can find the bulb type. It’s the breaks of being new to this part of stuff in automotive repair. Funny thing is my 06 impala has no backlight issues (knock on wood) but the Tahoe has plenty in the dash cluster, light switch, 4wd switch, manual heat backlighting. They must’ve used some bad suppliers at that time, tech changed in 2 years obviously.
How would you change it to white and bright?
Same process, but with white LED's.
Where can i get the white needle for the cluster?
US Speedo probably has them.
Great video bro 👍👍 But do you work on Chrysler 300m clusters ?
Not much. What do you need done to yours.
@@jeffescortlx My clusters works great, i just want to install blue LED's . Thanks for the reply👍
@@allpar300m6 some Chrysler clusters use electroluminescence backlighting. If yours does changing colors can get tricky.
Why do you twist the needles before removing them?
To break them free. Otherwise you end up breaking stems or pulling the shafts right out of the motors of you just try to pull straight up.
Can you change the led's too blue on my 08 cluster? Looks like this one. And how much would it cost?
Yes. 100 plus shipping.
@@jeffescortlx how long does it take?
@@jacobpowers8958 1-4 days.
I tried doing this myself and I got about half the lights to work, I keep trying to get the others to work and sometimes I can fix it but a few are giving me a really hard time. What could I be doing wrong? Or did I possibly break the board?
You could have the polarity wrong, using the wrong pads, causing a short across the pads, or you damaged the board. All just speculating without seeing it.
@@jeffescortlx one of the spots for the leds does seem burnt out, my iron is a bit too hot but I didn't even think of polarities. So if I flip the ones that aren't working around, could that solve it? Since I've posted the comment I've gotten two more to work
@@Locustkill3r yes LED's are polarity sensitive. They are doides.
@@jeffescortlx ok thank you you make it look so easy but it's a huge headache for me😅
Is the hot air gun extremely focused? I’d imagine you’d have to be careful what you heat up as to not undo other components.
Great work!
The surface tension of the melted solder helps hold the parts in place even when the solder is melted. They will normally stay put as long as the airflow isn't too much or bumped into too hard.
What’s the glue call
I live you man ❤️🥰
So what would it take to change the color of the two displays??
To lay a colored film transparency over it.
@@jeffescortlx so no way to make black background with white letters/numbers??
@@nickb4237 no, I don't believe VFD have even been able to do that. They typically emit green.
GM boring? You don't say. Good video.
Could I send you my gage cluster? I have a 97 mercury and all I want is different light idk if 97 had a curvature bird or not
Circuit
Somthing that old will probably have user serviceable bulbs.
cool what kind of led should I use for it
Can i use 5mm leds instead
I guess you could if you really tried. They won't fit very well, you'll have to bend the lead straight out and make it as flat as possible. And then I hope that it clears the middle white reflector layer. But usually 5 mm LEDs focus a light forward in a beam rather than spread it out like a surface mount, so you might get really bright spots directly underneath the LEDs.
Any idea on how to change th VFD color? Thanks
Transparency color film.
@jeffescortlx but the overlay still has the greenish filter on it how i get rid of it? Any idea
@@osvaldoNTC buy an aftermarket third party face that has the color transparency film you want already built in.
I have a 2013 avalanche, you can do this for my truck?
Yes
@@jeffescortlx
Nice, can you make it even brighter than your video? I would want the brightest possible.
So I ship you mine and you ship it back? What's the turn around time?
Thanks!
@@jubileechevalier1253 the LED's I use match OEM brightness pretty well. But my camera has a hard time showing what it really looks like.
My contact information can be found here:
czcams.com/video/T_2WnJMsZaU/video.html
I've got an 07 dodge magnum sxt that has gone dim and lost a light in the display below the tach ,could you please send me a link i need it gone through
If it's not the electroluminescent version it might have user serviceable bulbs. I'm not that familiar with dodge.
@@jeffescortlx all my research says it is the electric version as far as the display goes I'm not sure if the bulbs can be user replaced I've gotten answers saying both and i haven't opened it up to see
@@danereynolds2338 are you having problems with the back lighting or the display?
@@jeffescortlx the display has gone out injust the area below the tachometer
@@danereynolds2338 ok. I believe they use a VFD. They are not back lit. Could be board issues.
What is everything else works but the back lights on my cluster the LEDs on a 07 Chevy Silverado new body style
I'm guessing dimmer switch issues or blown fuse.
I have checked every fuse I can possibly I don't understand it to be honest I can turn my dimmer switch down end up in the mileage per hour gets brighter and dimmer but my back lights that show how fast flicker on and off but thank you for replying
@@andreaburch8173 you could have a defective LED in the cluster. Does the rest of the dashboard behave? Climate control and radio light up correctly?
Yes everything else works except the back lights to the LEDs
How can you tell which side of the led is neg and positive?
4:30
@@jeffescortlx i ment on the led itself..how is it marked neg nd positive..new led
@@thdevilmancometh both the old and new LED will have a corner notch indicating the negative side polarity.
@@jeffescortlx ok i didnt see it at first..thanks for clarifying!
Question; my check engine light is out but the obd ll is saying bulb is out and I was wondering how can I change it to make it come on I have 07 Chevy impala
Has the check engine light been out ever since you bought the car?
@@jeffescortlx yea I just bought it last week and I need the light to be on to pass the smog test
@@dare2bdifferentkustomz The previous owner didn't want to fix whatever was wrong with the car to cause the check engine light to come on. So they may have covered up the light or they could have smashed it off the circuit board, we won't know until the clusters is taken apart to see how it was damaged.
@@jeffescortlx ok so the best thing to do is take cluster off and look at it, then go from there?
@@dare2bdifferentkustomz you have three options. Attempt to repair it yourself. Or if you're not comfortable with this sort of repair you can send it out for repair, or you can find a used junkyard replacement and just deal with whatever the odometer reading change says.
Where can I get those Led's in purple>>>>>>>>>>>>
EBay, mouser, digi-key, element, same places that sell other colors.
Can we send you an instrument cluster on a 2007 gmc sierra new body stly z71 to upgrade to LED along with also sending you a Z71 Z71 TRUCK CARBON FIBER CLUSTER GAUGE FACE INLAY... Will it still work as normal, Our project truck has the full Z71 package, denali 08 package etc etc not that any of that matters but just wondering please get back to us and let us know, Great channel and videos you are inspiring - Savvy Turtle
Sure. Follow the link in the top comment to find my contact information.
Do you still do these...?
Yes I just posted a new video with a similar modification last month czcams.com/video/0N1c2I2uUQM/video.html
What u charge to change the led lights to white color
It would depend on the make/model/year of vehicle.
@@jeffescortlx I have a 2008 Silverado one
@@1crabdoggok. I can be contacted for a quote at 1mr.repairman@gmail.com
I see a pattern starting to form with these Mosfets....Hum
How can I get a hold of you? I got on a desktop computer and it still doesn’t show your email.
There should be a captcha on the about page to answer.
jeffescortlx just tried on IE and Chrome, nothing. Wondering how much Odometer Error and a few burned out lights would be when you have time.
@@estpaul3132 I'll assume you have a 03-06 Full size GM. Full rebuilds on those are $120 plus return shipping.
How do I get rid of hot spots?
LED bright spots?
Yes my 07 classic has hot spots
@@colemalterer6115 don't use focused dome top LED's.
I agree the blue looks better than the aqua but not something I would bother with unless the cluster needed other work.
My spare car has red back lighting and on a long drive at night it really gets bothersome on the eyes.
Honestly, why would anyone think bright red instruments in your face at night is a good idea ?
At least the aqua is easy on the eyes.
Technically I thought red was supposed to be the easiest in the eyes, and that is why submarines use red for lighting.
@@jeffescortlx I can't speak for the logic in submarines for red ambient lighting, perhaps it's different when the whole room is lit with red ambient light. Imagine if the entire control room was dark except for one bright red light source. For me at least, the red cluster being the only source of red light in the car just seems annoying especially if you're driving for hours. My daily has blue and it's quite comfortable.
Unfortunately, in the spare car, the back lighting is incandescent with red filters which would mean removing the filters leaving the lighting white and probably uneven.
I'd certainly change to blue if I could find good led replacements for the incandescent lamps.
As you've said, there are many replacement leds on ebay but all cheap unrefined Chinesium.
BTW, I love the microscope and it's not as expensive as I thought it would be.
How can I send my dash to you
My contact information is listed under my channel about tab.
Shit man you’re going to send him your entire dash?
yea..think I'll just stick with the aqua color..😓 however this a great video!