How to remove tint on your gauges for led lights on a Ford

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How to change you dash lights to led in a different colour on a 1999 Ford F-250 super duty diesel. This video addresses the common issue that is scraping off the green tint to get a crisp colour in my case blue but if you want any other colour other then green you will have to scrape the tint off and to do so you will have to calibrate your gauge cluster aka put the needle into my as close as possible so make reference to where they were before you start
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@Poolboybob Год назад

Instead of a sharpie dot, you can use the flat side of masking tape to mark the needles with the truck on (after the cluster was taken apart). You can remove needles with a fork. You can use sandpaper on the back of the face plates. This is a very in depth project and I would have liked to see more of the actual project rather than talking about it but it turned out great man! I’m running RWB lights on my ranger and it turned out sick. The HVAC controls are probably the worst to do. Just getting the damn thing apart I sliced my fingers with a flat head many times. Thankfully its easy to sand and put back together

@fireerik 2 года назад

You can infact do the steering wheel controls and door switches, I read a forum post about it and plan on doing all white. 3mm LEDs you gotta solder

@raiderman28 2 года назад

just buy a white face instrument panel, and put in blue bulbs, and it you don't have to go through all this, and possible have all your gauge off.

@keenerkiwi4919 2 года назад

How do you put the panel on without pulling the needles off?

@raiderman28 2 года назад

You can’t. Thats why too many things can go wrong, best to just buy another speedometer that already has a white face and put blue bulbs so they can stand out blue. There are a couple of guys online, that should which year ford models you can swap them with. Its a export sport model i think that has the same plugs

@keenerkiwi4919 2 года назад

@@raiderman28 my gauges have been accurate now for a year and I’d say if you do it right and you don’t fuck it up it works but if you can’t do it right or have any hesitations about it go spend a bunch of money on a new cluster

@raiderman28 2 года назад

Ohhhhh. That sucks. My bad. I thought the white face ones didn’t have any color on them like on the ford explorer sport trak models Is it film thats on there… or paint? I tint windows, most films come off with steam

@keenerkiwi4919 2 года назад

@@raiderman28 it’s some kind of painted stuff on the back . I tried it with the bulbs before but it didn’t give that nice blue colour

@blowme5150 2 года назад

Is there any way of screwing anything else up other then what you stated?

@keenerkiwi4919 2 года назад

If you take your time and don’t force the needles too hard they will come off nice also peel the backing up slow and don’t bend it and you should be good. Then it’s pretty much the calibration on the gauges that you have to worry about. Mine have been good ever since I’ve don’t it to this day. It’s definitely a stressful process because you don’t want to mess up but if you take you time and are confident it should go well

@genericdude6551 3 года назад

Wouldn't using blue LEDs shine through the green tint as cyan?

@keenerkiwi4919 3 года назад

I’m not really sure I just remember it being a little tint of blue but I’m also kind of colour blind 😂

@genericdude6551 3 года назад

@@keenerkiwi4919 I could live with cyan unless there's an easier way to remove the green tint. Maybe nail polish remover will be a possible and safer way to remove the tint?

@keenerkiwi4919 3 года назад

@@genericdude6551 it’s easy to pull the cluster o it and change them and see if you like it. I did that originally but I wanted the nice blue colour and I was using paint thinner to strip it but it needs to be done from the back and it is easier to scrape it to get it off. I would see if you like it without getting rid of the tint but if you want the colours to show up good you have to remove it

@DeliberateNRandom 6 месяцев назад

LEDs will also cut out over time. Did it with my Explorer. After a few drives, they shut off. A Ford repair tech told me it'll do that with most any except the dome lights.

@GameWiz2428 3 года назад

Of course I see this video after destroying my gauge face from removing it wrong lmao

@keenerkiwi4919 3 года назад

What happened if you don’t mind me asking? Also this was probably one of the most stressful mods you can do but it pays out in the end been loving the colour for months now

@atvsandmore3376 3 года назад

What’s the best thing to use to scrape the shift indicator

@keenerkiwi4919 3 года назад

I used a knife on a multi tool and I had left the shift indicator in the truck and shined a light through it until it was clean of all the tint it I’ll make a video to show you how it has been after a couple months and to answer that question