CUTLASS Success! Little blue light works again!

[69hurstolds]

One of the things to be aware of the incandescent bulb gets hot. You can use a replacement LED lamp in its place as they get slightly warm, but I haven't run into any that get blistering hot. Sometimes you'll find the gray plastic part warped and or browned due to excessive heat. Just be aware of that. I ran across that on my gray 85 442.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Fiber optics were very popular in the 80's.

 

[Froggys86]

If you take the gauge cluster out it should be on the left side coming from the main harness.

Sorry crappy Picture is all I have.


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This is the switch with the fiber optic cable and the light bulb cover. In the wiring harness there will be the socket for the light bulb that this cover snaps into and I think the bulb is powered by the pink with black stripe wire (circuit 39).
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[Froggys86]

Is that what connection looks like

 

[ELCAM]

Looks like the end of the fiber optic cable that plugs into the side of the headlight switch.

 

[Froggys86]

Looks like the end of the fiber optic cable that plugs into the side of the headlight switch.

Didn't work, but I have no dash lights fuse keeps poppin could that have something to do with it and also bulb socket and plug are black guess burned at one point...

 

[ELCAM]

Pretty sure this is on a different circuit than the dash lights so that fuse is not likely the problem. Is the socket and cover so cooked you can't salvage it.

I don't think you can find one of these except in a junkyard. It would be little work to retrofit it to an LED and heat shrink the fiber optic cable to the LED.

 

[Froggys86]

Pretty sure this is on a different circuit than the dash lights so that fuse is not likely the problem. Is the socket and cover so cooked you can't salvage it.

I don't think you can find one of these except in a junkyard. It would be little work to retrofit it to an LED and heat shrink the fiber optic cable to the LED.

 

[ELCAM]

Put a new bulb in it and see if it works

Same bulb a s a couple of the dash lights and the marker lights outside.

You can see what 442 was talking about it gets hot, for the long term I would put an LED bulb in there so it doesn't cook anymore.

 

[Froggys86]

Put a new bulb in it and see if it works

Same bulb a s a couple of the dash lights and the marker lights outside.

You can see what 442 was talking about it gets hot, for the long term I would put an LED bulb in there so it doesn't cook anymore.

Okay and light works when headlights are on or stays on...