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Got my new LED's in so I redid my gauge cluster. Going from ones with 4 leds to 5. 4 of them out the side with a high power on top, I have alot better spread now, and less hot spots.

Before (4 bulbs)
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that looks good man
 

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Lookin good bud. Been thinking about doing the same thing to mine for a while
 

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Looks good, but it looks like you got a couple of 'hot spots.' I don't know how much of a pain it would be, but maybe you could put the four led ones back in to fix the areas at the 0 on the tach, 20 on the speedo, and 110 on the oil pressure?
 
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Looks good, but it looks like you got a couple of 'hot spots.' I don't know how much of a pain it would be, but maybe you could put the four led ones back in to fix the areas at the 0 on the tach, 20 on the speedo, and 110 on the oil pressure?

Thats where all the bulbs are located.

I think it shows more in the photos than actually in person. And I think a couple of them are not even on as they need to be turned the other way, so that may will help spread it out more too.

I am eventually changing the ring around the key to blue, and then in overhead lights to white.

I also have around 80 prewired LEDs to add some accents to places
 

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Looks good!! Another Successful LED Dash mod. Good job Luke.
 
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Yeah I had mine done from over a year ago, had a couple of the old LEDs go bad so I figured it was time to try new bulbs.
 
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screwed them up but they light up at least.

I tried getting fancy with the needles, now they are messed up in position and I broke the tip of the RPM. Any suggestions on fixing the positions? I will get another RPM needle of a parts vehicle my dad has.
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This is just a suggestion but it's worth a shot. Take the cluster out just a bit and reseat it. if that doesn't work with the plastic shield off pull the needles and let the cluster naturally reset to "home". then put the needles back on. Just a thought. I haven't really seen that issue before. Maybe colton will chime in he had similar issues.
 
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I was gonna wait till I got off work, but may just do it on my lunch. the directions are for a Dakota, but should be the same, its already messed up so I figured I can try it.
 

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Yup it's already broke so how much worse could it get. lol Good luck luke hope it works for ya.
 
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Well it worked!!!!
Just had to do it mutiple times to get the needles to align properly. Took about 1/2 hour for all of them
 

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That looks amazing. Really made me want to do mine now.
 
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