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  1. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    PicsI've done this ALOT! I've used all kinds of cutting tools over the years when I used to mod computer cases. So I have a lot of experience in cutting and shaping different plastics. I start out seeing how much I can get done with this high speed saw. Well, it looks like I'm going to have...
  2. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, Cut off what I need so that, yes be able to lock the bulb into part of the box of choice that will fit into that space. That may take some engineering to do. we'll see. Film at eleven.
  3. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @AuroraGirl, @squarelyfe, That's what I plan to do with what I got from one of my local wrecking yards a few minutes ago. The above pic is what I got out of a '88 Suburban! It cost all of 4 bucks! Heck, their prices have been so high lately, I brought a $20. This pic is as is. It still had...
  4. Raider L

    Writings on the wall, I think

    @Dcfirebottle, Okay! I read that you took the old factory starter off and put on a "high torque" type. I'm going to assume you mean the mini starter, right? I consider myself some what of a semi-expert in this because I went through four flexplates before I discovered what my problems were...
  5. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @AuroraGirl, I'm thinking about what you were saying about this "hood" thing you mentioned, and I started thinking that maybe somehow the indicator may have got some light from off the clear lens from gauge light reflected back at it. If I can get out to one of the wrecking yards and get my...
  6. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    I may make a trip to one of the wrecking yards that say they have some old Caprice cars. I may luck out and find something I could use. Even if I cut a lamp box off the instrument case and mod it in to use, that would be okay. If I try to make somekind of a box out of cardboard I can see "hot...
  7. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @AuroraGirl, Yeah, I don't even have any of that lighting anymore. I do have the white plastic box, but none of the lighting for it. My Autometer speedo and tach have their own lighting from bulbs in the back of them. So there is "scattering" of light from how the stock white plastic box is...
  8. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, No, I'm not having a problem with it being dim, as a matter of fact that's the reason why I'm having to make a "hood" for it is to cut down on the light that is now shining on the floor...like a lot. I really never knew where the light for the indicator came from, although it...
  9. Raider L

    wiring to glove compartment

    @AuroraGirl, Pics.The above pic shows that it would have clipped into a square opening in the metal, probably. The above pic shows the insert and the silver colored end "snaps" onto the black plastic part. Once snapped together the plastic part would rotate inside the metal part. I don't know...
  10. Raider L

    Praise for the Delco 2700

    @Turbo4whl, It seems to me I had somewhere a post I made to you about the "ground strap" on the hood. I'm going to do that. I'll post pics. My truck doesn't have any signs of ever having a ground strap on the hood either, but I'm putting one on it. Now, what kind of strap material is it...
  11. Raider L

    Simple door fix/arm rest replacement

    @squarelyfe, Rereading this thread. No, I think that must be LMC's. Mine sat flat like it should. They must think that tilting it like that is more ergonomic and is how your arm rest on it.
  12. Raider L

    Studying the schematic

    @davetyp, I was looking at my wife's Subaru and it's got some different kinds of fuses in it. But I don't know anything about them. And in the past when I've called the dealer about fuse designations on the covers of the underhood fuse boxes in the engine compartment, what they were, and what...
  13. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, As a matter of fact, I have some plastic out in the shop I keep for various and sundri projects. I would like to go over to Hobby Lobby and see if they've got some sheet plastic of different thicknesses. I could do a good one with some flat sheets of plastic I could glue...
  14. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, Thanks for your great pictures. That's just what I needed! Yep, that's what I thought it would be. I've worked with these kinds of things and knew it had to have been what your pics show. I wanted to see what the real thing looked like first before I picked out what I was going...
  15. Raider L

    wiring to glove compartment

    Yes, @AuroraGirl, that's it. I didn't understand why my year truck didn't have a glove compartment light when other models did. So, I found a glove compartment light in a truck at one of my local wrecking yards but the darn thing was a big as a football! Not really, just joking, but it was a...
  16. Raider L

    Studying the schematic

    @Bextreme04, Thanks! I thought I was off in the weeds on that. I do that a lot because I don't want to make any mistakes by being in a hurry. Especially when it comes to the dang wiring, that's all I need is something to go wrong because I didn't think it through enough.
  17. Raider L

    Studying the schematic

    @Turbo4whl, Oh yeah, thanks for the diagram of the symbols for those diodes. I was wondering about that!
  18. Raider L

    Studying the schematic

    Now, what I could do is replace the #12 Alt. wire with a #10 wire for the Alt. power wire at the Alt. That way all I would need is a #14 wire for the fusible link at the junction block and it would all be the correct size. Concidering the Alt factory splice there, the #12 that goes into the...
  19. Raider L

    Studying the schematic

    @Turbo4whl, davetyp, Bextreme04, Boy, I'm glad ya'll covered the topic of the fusible link verses a fused connection because like @davetyp said about the fuses, that's exactly what I was going to do. And instead of a "fusible link", i.e, a smaller wire on the Alt wire connection like the...
  20. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @squarelyfe, Wow, that's great, but now show me the other side of that hole so I can see how those lock things on the bulb socket lock into the box. Because they have to lock in somehow otherwise the socket would just fall out. Your pic is good because now I know the hole, on the side shown...
  21. Raider L

    Holley 600 WTF moment---curious to know whats wrong

    I've worked on Holley's for years. They're pretty much fool proof so long as they are clean, and not that they are sensitive to dirt because some people have left them on their engines for years and hardly never rebuilt them. A Q-jet must stay clean because it's so sensitive to vacuum...
  22. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    When I was rebuilding my truck i took the white plastic box and cut everything out of the center and just left the perimeter that the instrument bezel screws to. All the instrument holes, lamp pockets, clip holes that are what the gauges pin into, everything was cut out. Now, the center part...
  23. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @AuroraGirl, Yeah, I don't want that to happen! And yes, I see those you show in the above pic, but I need a pic of just one of the holes, and how the bulb goes into the hole and "locks" in. Now, if anyone else who reads this has a back box or whatever it's name is who can take a good clear...
  24. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @AuroraGirl, Here is a bulb. I may have to modify my design here where the wires are attached to the bulb, but we'll see. I have all kinds of different card board stock. I plan on making some selection from that supply fold the sides up to make a box for the lamp to go into and if I could...
  25. Raider L

    lamp sockets factory instrument panel

    @AuroraGirl, You are the first person I though of to ask this question. Do you have the white, or duck egg green, plastic box that is what the printed circuit lays onto. What I need to see are the bulb holes, up close, so I can see how the bulb is installed into the hole. And a up close pic...

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