my guage lights are very dim, so i want to replace them and clean the contacts.

I am wondering how do you remove the lights in the guages. i looked at them and i dont see how they come out. I am going to replace them with 3000+mcd red LED bulbs; any advice here?

They just snap into the back of the gauges. Getting to them is a bitch. Unless you have spaghetti arms, and eyes on the ends of your fingers.

If I was going to do what you plan, I'd pull the entire dash out to do it.

Just My $.02

They just snap into the back of the gauges. Getting to them is a bitch. Unless you have spaghetti arms, and eyes on the ends of your fingers.

If I was going to do what you plan, I'd pull the entire dash out to do it.

Just My $.02

DITTO!

With all the wire cutting and splicing and soldering etc, I doubt you'll do more than ONE, before you decide to pull the dash.

Enrique

... dash is already just sitting there.. took it out already. left it sitting on the mounts tho so i could keep the ignition hooked up

All you need is to hook up a battery with patch cords to the dash harness so you can clean & test the lighting circuit. I've traced the lighting circuit on the wiring diagram for my 280Z and drew it up in a separate notebook (for future reference) so I can see the simplified circuit while I'm working on things. I've got a few circuits drawn up in there: fog lights, wipers, radio, dash lights...More as I need them

Do the other connections/circuits too? which circuits are there for you?