Changed dash cluster and have a battery drain now

[dougfather]

reffered to a picture of the dash cluster with the bulbs in it and arranged them in that order. found a blue bulb used that for the charge light ( had a black one there) and this solves my alternator problem but not the gas gauge. I also see on the reference manual another blue bulb behind the gagues. I have a green bulb there and I'm out of blue. Is this my problem? where can I get the blue bulbs from? I searched for awhile all over the internet and never really found anything. not even Ebay.

and I just realized the speedo isn't working. after awhile of sitting when the car is off the needle will rest but when I'm driving and I come to a stop the needle reads 10mph. Can I adjust this?

Sorry for the headache.

I believe the Olds clusters require a wire swap on the connecotr when changing from lightsd to gauges. here is a link

http://gbodyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=35
http://tech.oldsgmail.com/eint_rallye_swap.html

 

[CutlassGrandNational]

yup did all that already

 

[gs dewd]

The bulb color won't have anything to do with the problems your having. Recheck all your wiring and make sure everything thing is wired correctly. thespeedo is cable driven so you may not have it pluged in all the way so check that.

 

[CutlassGrandNational]

Speedo will not rest when it's unplugged either if I spin it myself. It's pushed all the way and clipped. Very certain of that.

The pink wire for the fuel indicator which goes to socket number 3 on the clip is in it's proper place.

 

[dogsht]

I just had similar problems. It was the ground. I am not a fan of the one wire altenators.