Broken Odometer 88-91 Blazer, Suburban, and R/V series truck

[1-ton]

Correct. The cluster housing/printed circuit is completely different than earlier because of that, and also the "deletion" of the old clock/tach gas gauge location. (It's there, but set up for three idiot lights...no mounting tabs for a gauge, and to even fit a gauge, you'd have to dremel a bunch of the internal ribbing out that separated each area for the various lights they could have used there.)

Your comment about the ribbon cable connection is one of many reasons I removed the printed circuit and hardwired the whole cluster.

Those gauge cluster package I posted from Digital Dakota may not work with the odd ball 90-91 trucks. They list the 91, but they may not know what they are talking about. I can see hard wiring all the gauges, but what light sockets did you use to hard wire the dash socket bulbs?

 

[rampage]

Those gauge cluster package I posted from Digital Dakota may not work with the odd ball 90-91 trucks. They list the 91, but they may not know what they are talking about. I can see hard wiring all the gauges, but what light sockets did you use to hard wire the dash socket bulbs?

He went with LED.

https://ck5.com/forums/threads/electronics-gurus-resistors-diodes-etc.308163/#post-3294900

 

[1-ton]

He went with LED.

https://ck5.com/forums/threads/electronics-gurus-resistors-diodes-etc.308163/#post-3294900

Yes, but you have to have some type of twist-lock socket that has a pig-tail wire for a power source coming from it, in order to hard wire them.

 

[dyeager535]

Yes, but you have to have some type of twist-lock socket that has a pig-tail wire for a power source coming from it, in order to hard wire them.

Or, you make them.

Seriously. I removed the bulbs from the sockets, drilled the bases for wires, soldered the wires to the LED, then epoxied the assembly inside the socket. I made a mistake though and didn't use plastic epoxy, although I've had no failures yet. I figure the epoxy is formed to the socket, so it's going nowhere.

 

[1-ton]

Or, you make them.

Seriously. I removed the bulbs from the sockets, drilled the bases for wires, soldered the wires to the LED, then epoxied the assembly inside the socket. I made a mistake though and didn't use plastic epoxy, although I've had no failures yet. I figure the epoxy is formed to the socket, so it's going nowhere.

That seems like a lot of work. I have never been any good at soldering.

 

[dyeager535]

It was work, but it was pretty simple, since you are dealing with plastic. Soldering those small LED's gets a bit tricky, but I think maybe I blew one out, at maybe $.50/ea, not a crushing loss.

 

[ZooMad75]

I put LED's in my 91 cluster. No issues at all. There was one light on the cluster that took a 194pc bulb which is a standard 194 bulb permanently installed into a twistlock base. I ended up pulling the bulb out and installing one of my 194 style replacement LED bulbs.