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Gauges, RJ Autoworks Gauges & Blue LED Conversion - How to
Jul 15, 4:44am -
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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tools u will need to complete this project:
Stop by radioshack and get the next items...
Silver solder that runs for $3.99
the product number is 64-013
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Jul 15, 4:47am -
#222792
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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next u will need a soldering pen with a fine tip
the 40Watt works great and it runs for $8.39
the produck number is 64-2071
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Jul 15, 4:52am -
#222793
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 1
now lets start taking shit apart
the first thing u need to do is
uncrew the 2 crews pointed by the lil fingers
after uncrewing put ur steering wheel all the way down so, the cober thing can come out
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Jul 15, 4:56am -
#222794
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 2
now uncrew the next 3 crews pointed by the little fingers
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Jul 15, 4:58am -
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 3
now behind the cluster there are 2 harnesses pull them off first. After this pull the cluster out, by sliding it sideways
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Jul 15, 8:43pm -
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 4
on the picture uncrew the crews pointed by the black arrow, ignore the pointing fingers, there are just pointing out next step
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Jul 15, 8:45pm -
#222797
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 5
unclip all the clips pointed out by the pointers
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Jul 15, 8:46pm -
#222798
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 6
ur gauges clusters are going to end up looking kinda like this wen ur finish
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Jul 15, 8:51pm -
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 7
in order to get the orange gauges out, u need the neddle to come out. so with 2 spoons u put them under the neddle and u push down wards, push down were the pointing fingers are, be really careful with this step, and dont push really hard u mite break them.
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Jul 15, 8:56pm -
#222800
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 8
now that the neddle is off peal out the orange gauge out, like in the picture, now u mite have a hard time cuz there is lil hooks, were the needles were before, the hooks are pointed out by the pointing fingers, it should not be hard just pull the gauge down a lil to get it off the hooks
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Jul 15, 9:00pm -
#222801
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 9
if u just want to change the gauge then ur done. but if u want to change ur LED then keep going with this next step.
now take the green board off the white cluster, i started to take it off by starting with the right side of the green board, then pulling it off
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Jul 15, 9:02pm -
#222802
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 10
this will be how ur board will look wen u pull it apart
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Jul 15, 9:05pm -
#222803
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step11
u need to get LCD panel out to change its color so u need to push the taps under it to get it off
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Jul 15, 9:08pm -
#222804
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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step 12
i found it a lot easy to stick a lil knife under it, and pushing up wile pulling with my other hand, stick the knife were the pointing fingers are pointing
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Jul 15, 9:13pm -
#222805
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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pictures on steps 10, 11, and 12 are from the other instalation guide
now moving on to step 13
now remove all the LED pointed by my lil pointing fingers there are a total of 13 LED u need to remove
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Jul 15, 9:19pm -
#222806
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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now if u never solder something before here is were u will learn.
step 14
first plug in ur soldering pen and wait for about 10 mins so it can heat up, after that as u can see in the blurry picture carefully press the tip of the pen into the silver part of the LED it should mealt right way
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Jul 15, 9:21pm -
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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if ur doing this right then it should pop up like this
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Jul 15, 9:23pm -
#222808
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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here is a better picture of were u need to press the tip of the soldering pen at
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Jul 15, 9:24pm -
#222809
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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if this is becoming hard to u i recoment u should move to a hard platform, not a bed just do it at a table
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Jul 15, 9:29pm -
#222810
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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place the LED were the old one use 2 be at, remember blue goes the same way as the stock LED was, red needs to go on the oposite way as stock, now with the silver solder cut a peace of it off, maybe about 4 inches, trust me it burns up easy, now place the silver solder were u want for it to melt, and then with the tip of the pen pouch it and bam ur done. dont put 2 much of it a few lil drops will be good
here is a picture for u to get an idea of wat i just said
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Jul 15, 9:32pm -
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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now replace all the LED pointed by the yellow arrow on this picture from the other guide.
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Jul 15, 9:35pm -
#222812
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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now if ur doing blue and u want ur red line to be red and not blue here is the chance to change the LED. now change the last one on the RPM metter to red here its pointed out by the finger
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Jul 15, 9:52pm -
#222813
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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also its time to change the rest if u want ur gauges to be all blue, and not have red LED and Green ones all over the gauge, ill point out witch one is witch on the picture bellow
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Jul 15, 9:54pm -
#222814
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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after this lets make sure all ur lights are working, now run outside and plug in both of ur harnesses and turn ur the key to on. it should look like this
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Jul 15, 9:59pm -
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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thought i forgot about ur needles, NOPE I DIDNT, now go grab some robing alcohol and some cotton balls, deep the cotton ball into the alcohol then try to rub out all the orange on ur needles, after all the paint its done get a sharpie and color only the botton of the neeedle. now u dont have to use a sharpie, u can use paint or transparent paint but its all up to u
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Jul 15, 10:01pm -
#222817
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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okay guys almost done here comes the hardest part of the hole instalation go out to ur car with the gauges like this
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Jul 15, 10:07pm -
#222818
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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the reason y is because u need to recalibrate ur needles, here is how i did it. go to the car and try to place ur needles at 0 RPM and 0 MPH, now plug the white harnes first and ur needles will jump, let it sit there for 10 to 15 seconds then connect the blue one, if ur needles are off just keep trying to take them out and put them back on, now u dont need to push them all the way in just push it in enough so it wont fall, keep doing this till ur done u dont want ur rpm and mph to be off. specially the rpm u dont wanna blow ur engine, now this mite take a lot of time but with pations it will be okay. and if nothing work, wile the car is on take out the needle and put it in, it mite help just try wat ever u can, u will get it some how, if u need more help PM. thats all ya here is a more detailed instalation guide to RJ autoworks gauges hope i make it to the install guide on the site  |
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Jul 17, 11:30am -
#222819
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Veteran
Posts: 1306
Annapolis, MD
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the reason y is because u need to recalibrate ur needles, here is how i did it. go to the car and try to place ur needles at 0 RPM and 0 MPH, now plug the white harnes first and ur needles will jump, let it sit there for 10 to 15 seconds then connect the blue one, if ur needles are off just keep trying to take them out and put them back on, now u dont need to push them all the way in just push it in enough so it wont fall, keep doing this till ur done u dont want ur rpm and mph to be off. specially the rpm u dont wanna blow ur engine, now this mite take a lot of time but with pations it will be okay. and if nothing work, wile the car is on take out the needle and put it in, it mite help just try wat ever u can, u will get it some how, if u need more help PM. thats all ya here is a more detailed instalation guide to RJ autoworks gauges hope i make it to the install guide on the site Calibrating the needles is easy, you just take them past max,like push rpms above red line, it will fall back down, same for mph |
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Jul 17, 5:05pm -
#222820
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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sure here are the pix of after install, with all blue LED at night time, sorry no day time pix
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Jul 17, 5:06pm -
#222821
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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here is the Blue LEDs and Red LEDs for the red line, in the morning
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Jul 17, 5:07pm -
#222822
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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same as above at night
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Jul 18, 11:59am -
#222823
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Enthusiast
Posts: 288
Elk Grove, California
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coo, but where can i order that blue/red backplate instead of the stock yellow?
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Jul 18, 2:53pm -
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Site Programmer
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Jul 18, 7:58pm -
#222825
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Cameron
Member
Posts: 115
Encino, Cali
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what's the chance on messing up on this install?? I have the LED's, but I have no soldering experience. Even though your guide is VERY helpful, what's the chance of messing up my guages?? (messed up guages = lights don't work, mph/rpm goes crazy, burn something out, pretty much just f*ck up in general)
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Jul 19, 6:44pm -
#222826
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Chris
Member
Posts: 89
Madison WI
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place the LED were the old one use 2 be at, remember blue goes the same way as the stock LED was, red needs to go on the oposite way as stock, now with the silver solder cut a peace of it off, maybe about 4 inches, trust me it burns up easy, now place the silver solder were u want for it to melt, and then with the tip of the pen pouch it and bam ur done. dont put 2 much of it a few lil drops will be good
here is a picture for u to get an idea of wat i just said What do you mean the red needs to go on the opposite way as stock? Do you mean the polarity on the LEDs is different? I want to do this mod to my recently-purchased 2000 Celica, but want to know what I'm doing before I get headstrong into it all. Otherwise the instructions are great! |
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Jul 19, 9:40pm -
#222827
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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as a request for L3M1315
here is a picture of how u should place the RED LED
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Jul 23, 5:44pm -
#222828
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Chris
Member
Posts: 89
Madison WI
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Do you have a part number for those LEDs? I've never seen LEDs like that  , I'm more familiar what what you find at RadioShack or DigiKey. Also, the part number doesn't do me good without the place from which you bought them. Or, as isaac hinted at in another install thread, can I use any LEDs (as found at DigiKey or RadioShack)? Thanks |
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Jul 23, 11:46pm -
#222829
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Carlos
Senior Member
Posts: 3067
Alexandria, VA
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i dont know about gettin the LED from somewere else, i got those with the kit sorry i cant help u there
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Oct 24, 12:54pm -
#222830
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Ryan
New Member
Posts: 7
Indiana
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Very good instructions! I installed mine today! My MPH needle is off by 5 MPH but thats nothing to bad |
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