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Old 12-30-2006, 11:54 AM
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All the lights on my guages and radio etc do not come on whereabouts to i find the problem. How do i get to the bulbs in the dash, any help is appreciated.

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Old 12-30-2006, 12:06 PM
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This Might Seem to easy but did you check the Fuses? Fuses under the the dash. The wiring on a thirdgen is very solid. It got to be just a Fuse or two.
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To my knowledge they do not have a fuse for it under the dash. That or i misunderstood the abbreviations. All i saw was guages, not one for interior lights.
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all my interior lights work in mine except for the shifter
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To my knowledge they do not have a fuse for it under the dash. That or i misunderstood the abbreviations. All i saw was guages, not one for interior lights.
you had to have miss read it... EVERYTHING electrical in a car has a fuse. rite down to your interior lights. do you have the owner's manual? in there, it should explain what every fuse does.
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I changed out the guage fuse and the instr lamps and still nothing. When i got the car they were vry dim then one day just didnt come on. I changed my ground cable which had to be replaced regardless and that didnt fix it. My dome light as well as my pedal light (i guess you call it) works just no guage lights. As well my gas guage is stuck on F. Any quick fixes for that?

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Sounds like the rheostat in your headlight switch is kaput. The headlight switch isn't the easiest thing to remove , either. Pull the dash pad top off where you can get access to the back of the switch and look for a smaller size gray wire , does it have power when the switch is on? The feed for this is the parking light wire and the guage light fuse is bettween the switch and the dash lights.
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i got it all torn down but what s the trick to get the cluster out. Something seems to be stuck behind and above the speedo the right side is ready but the ;eft side catches. Anyone had that happen?
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I'm thinking the speedo cable is what is keeping you from removing the cluster.
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Originally Posted by 1970judge
i got it all torn down but what s the trick to get the cluster out. Something seems to be stuck behind and above the speedo the right side is ready but the left side catches. Anyone had that happen?
when i took my cluster out, i had to detach the speedo cable.

u might want to buy a book for your car. saved me a lot of time and would prob save you a lot of time too. it will be $20 bucks at most and kinda walks u through a lot of simple and even complicated things. mine shows me how to completely dismantle my car and put it back together. jus a thought. it would prob help tho.
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Already got the book. Not very explanatory on this part. Thanks guys, i appeciate the help.



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