Stereo & Electronics - Could this be fixed (electronic guru's welcome

Not to real keen on eletronics.

Long story short, picked up a 99 ss with 100k miles. 2 owner car and the previous owner just put full exhaust on it, longtubes back and did egr delete.

He said it was "tuned" He payed some guy to do it.

Well the car is not tuned at all throwing all 02 codes like normal for header instalation. but no check engine light..pulled the cluster and found this.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e99/Imperfection2021/2012-05-10_20-51-23_896.jpg

I guess the guy that was supose to tune the car just plucked the check engine light bulb out :(

It it possible to soder a new bulb in it's place or is this cluster ruined.

you can soilder that easy. just make sure your soilder doent hit any other curcits. i have done alot of this repairs on stuff just get a good soilder and make sure you dont touch nothing but that soilder mark

Sweet I'll find somone that can soilder real good. Im finding little nick nack stuff with with this car but only have 4500 tied up in it so far.

Does anyone happen to know what bulbs go in the guages for the individual lights?

Since there has already been a bulb soldered into those vias (the holes the bulb leads fits into) it may be difficult to insert a new bulb. What you will need to do is heat both vias simultaneously so that the solder in both reflows. This will allow you to insert the new bulb leads very easily. I would recommend a hot air gun since you will have a hard time making contact with both vias using an iron. Don't worry TOO much about heating the surrounding circuit traces. I don't think the heat will transfer quickly through them. Just try to focus the hot air on the two vias and carefully insert the new bulb leads where they belong.

Since there has already been a bulb soldered into those vias (the holes the bulb leads fits into) it may be difficult to insert a new bulb. What you will need to do is heat both vias simultaneously so that the solder in both reflows. This will allow you to insert the new bulb leads very easily. I would recommend a hot air gun since you will have a hard time making contact with both vias using an iron. Don't worry TOO much about heating the surrounding circuit traces. I don't think the heat will transfer quickly through them. Just try to focus the hot air on the two vias and carefully insert the new bulb leads where they belong.


Thanks, this is gonna be one of the things I may tackle this weeknd. I just don't like dealing with tedious small stuff like this haha.

Correct way to do it would be to put a solder wick or sucker on it and REMOVE the old solder. Slide the new bulb in and then re-solder it with new solder.

Where in AL are you? We've got a club in the southern areas of LA, MS, AL, & FL.

Kevin D.

Listen to Kevin, use soldering wick to get the old solder out and get the joints clean. Not sure if it is a 5 or 12 VDC LED, but any generic amber one of the right size and intensity will work. Remember there is a polarity so it won't work if the leads are reversed.

I work at an electronics manufacturer and could fix this for you in a second. When you go to solder the led back in, check the masking on the component side. If there's a square pad then typically that's your anode location. Usually the anode on a led is the long lead.

Correct way to do it would be to put a solder wick or sucker on it and REMOVE the old solder. Slide the new bulb in and then re-solder it with new solder.

Where in AL are you? We've got a club in the southern areas of LA, MS, AL, & FL.

Kevin D.

I'm just right outside birmingham, Al.

Yeah I have no way to solder this, so I am gonna try to find someone around this area to do it haha