i know the 95 era Explorer OHC's have blue display, and the newer OHC's have green. but is it at all possible to change the green in the new OHC's?

i have 2 green display OHC's and i was wondering if i could change the color since everything else in my truck is blue. or should i just try and find an older OHC?

 

i thought it was just a lense? ??

 

nope....it is actually the display that is blue or green....

you can find an older OHC and swap out the board in the newer OHC....

 

well the OHCs themselves look exactly the same perty much anyways right? might as well just find an older one

 

yea they look the same......the only difference is the display color and maybe wire colors...

 

Yup.

The lens it what makes them green. The color of the display is a teal and the filter makes it green.

You can take a piece of smoked plexi and make a new cover. So it will be teal. As far as any other color you are SOL. As the display would need to be changed. Being a custom VFD it will be almost im possible to get the engineering info for it and get a new color made.

 

what year was the color changes?

 

I think '95-'96 had the blue display and the '97-'01 has green. The '97 model I'm not 100% sure about though.

 

Actually, I have a blue display that I want to be green. I was looking to swap filters with someone on here... we could try that if you like...

And now that I think about it... the displays are just VFDs... (vacuum fluorescent displays)... I believe those are the same color no matter what. Could be wrong...

One last edit: now that I think about it, I think there are radios out there with multicolor VFD displays... so I dunno. If you're interested, mine is gray/black. Need to hammer out some details (modded mine a bit), but if you're interested let me know. I WANT TO GO GREEN!

 

yeah id maybe think about that!.. cause everything in my truck is Blue, besides the orginal red in HVAC and guages. so the Blue display would match up alot better

 

Does Anyone have pics of both colors??? Meaning, a pic of a green ohc, and a pic of a blue ohc??? I'd like to find out the shade of the blue. gotta make everything match my all blue led interior. Thanks!!

 

This thread has a green OHC, and

This thread has a blueish OHC

 

i like the blue alot better