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Oh, forgot to ask. Does your low fuel light work now? Obviously, you have a full tank at the moment, but will it function just by putting in a bulb? Or is there more to it than that?At the moment I have yet to see my truck power it up. I have it connected to where schematics have told me where the connections are but I had a full tank when I hit the deer and have been parked since.
There is no bulb socket for the light, rather you are just soldering a wire onto a pin on the slush gauge circuit and connecting another to ground. Once you know what goes where it is simple enough to figure out how to make the connections however since you have to break out a soldering iron and find a spot for a light it is a bit more in depth than just a bulb.
The way I hooked up my light:
I got an amber LED strip hidden behind a custom made Ranger logo in the spot where autos have the shift indicator. Since it is an LED strip, it already has the wires that need to be connected.
The positive end I soldered on the 2nd from the left pin on the slush circuit (the removable circuit board on your cluster) as that is the pin that goes to the "check gage" light. I then prevented that pin from powering the "check gage" light with a little bit of electrical tape in the right spot.
The negative end I soldered into the 2nd from the left illumination bulb socket on the ground side along with the ground wire for my backlighting.
You should be able to see how it is all layed out from the picture of the back side I posted previously.
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