Yes the faces are electro-luminescent and the needles are lit with 194 bulbs.
The trick for flickering SVT faces is to turn the dimmer down a hair, new (junkyard) headlight switch fixed it for me permanently.
If that doesn't do it then the inverter is going out, it's intergrated in the aux. oil cluster circuit. There are ways to bypass it and use a separate aftermarket inverter.
Yes the faces are electro-luminescent and the needles are lit with 194 bulbs.
The trick for flickering SVT faces is to turn the dimmer down a hair, new (junkyard) headlight switch fixed it for me permanently.
If that doesn't do it then the inverter is going out, it's intergrated in the aux. oil cluster circuit. There are ways to bypass it and use a separate aftermarket inverter.
I think this is would be the easiest way. With the lens off the aux oil cluster cut the red wires on the left from and connect them to the new inverter output. This will illuminate the aux gauges.
The main cluster has two red wires at the very top, splice these into the new inverter for illumination. (Take care not to break any of these wires from the sheets.)
Then power the inverter to a parking light circuit wire make it all work. (Whatever wire on back of the aux cluster that powered the old inverter will work.)
It's discontinued, but you can try a new (used) one too.
The aftermarket inverter is $10 fix on the plus side. And you don't have to track one down from a seller that may not want to separate it from the main cluster.
I was always curious what that last idiot light was supposed to be on the oil cluster...is that supposed to be like a snowflake or something? What was the purpose?
I really need to fix mine but I can't find a write up. Sniper, you have a new PM.
Sean
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