I've gotta see this red led mod, I want to do it! Blue is cool too but red light does not reduce your night vision as much as other colors. And it would look much better than the green/orange christmas tree lookin stock colors.. Plus it will match my exterior, unless i paint it flat black, which i might.

 

I really doubt it, in Ford Theory, the SJB is married to the Cluster and the PCM. This happens after assembly during standard programming.

 

I don't have any problems with it reducing my night vision. I don't understand what you mean.

 

It might not make much of a noticeable difference but when driving on dark highways i will dim my dash lights, and your iris's will let more light in and you can see better. And supposedly red light reduces this over other colors of light. I just thought it makes sense that dash lights be red for this reason.

 

i'm just trying to get my damned cruise control lights to work.. let alone make them l.e.d. haha good work tho cam.

 

yes, i just drove it to wal mart. the mileage is stored in the cluster, but im far from being under warranty and the cluster i bought was close in mileage to the original.

 

has anyone used red LED's in the gauge yet? Now i'm wondering if I should do red or blue

 

Yeah one guy did, he doesn't frequent here that much though. I'm forgetting his name right now, it will come to me later.

 

I think as of right now (until Cameron does) I am the only one to do a full component LED (or non plugin LED) swap on an 04+. If I had to do it over again I would not use the components, I would use the oznium ribbon strips as I have seen how awesome they are compared to anything else.

Oznium sells these in RED you can get them. I'm using them on my Evo in Red.

 

So by doing the Oz strips I assume you actually have to take the needles off and remove the face?

 

Yes, you have to completely dissasemble the cluster. Don't be scared by this as I've posted plenty of videos on how to do it. Besides, if you want to do any color besides the stock color, you will need to remove the needles and pull the faces off to sand off the "green slime film" on the back.

 

I have white face gauges from the factory. I was told the green lighting behind them was just from the bulbs and the green circuit board. Is the white face gauges actually coated green on the backside?

 

Correct, the bulbs are clear. The green comes from the coating on the back of the gauges.

 

Thanks - you saved me some keystrokes

 

i ordered some of the blue strips last night.

so what kind of wiring should be used with these/what gauge?

 

No more than say..... 18ga. LED's don't draw amperage, thus no need for big wire to carry amperage.

 

I've got some 26 gauge I'm going to use. I think it should work fine. I wouldn't go any bigger than 22.

 

Follow my how-to... That Trent has yet to move to the actual how-to on converting to LED's and/or chaning the gauge color.

 

I used 20 gauge wiring for mine.

This is the product I love for clusters.

 

So you guys doing the strip conversions...just a few more questions. How many strips did you use total (AC and cluster)?

Did you convert your 4x4 switch/headlight switch/cruise control and if so did you make the strips work or did you go about it a different way?

Did you guys actually paint the back of your gauge faces or just take the factory paint of and put in colored LED's?

 

I have not done a Ranger cluster with the strips yet, these are just example pictures from the oznium site.

No I used the standard proven way of doing it, however I don't like to "sand off the surface of the LED", I use 360 degree LED's instead.

Colored LED's everytime. However those with only 2 pedals MAY have to use paint behind the PRNDL as I hear the color does not sand off. I cannot comment on this as I have 3 pedals.