If you look at his new dash pan you see the black and red wires. there is a black and red wire for each bulb. The light bulbs are not grounded through the dash pan to the frame they each have their own ground wire. hence adding the ground wire.

 

Panz4ever...didn’t see the little red comments. Cool. Two items you had “???’s” about. That large black strip has 4 holes which seem to correspond to the circuit breaker holders like some sort of vibration damper. But I won’t need them because old shovels don’t vibrate, right?

The little ones are exactly the same size and dimension as The switch spacers, but they are about four times as thick.

 

Anybody know where to buy these? 12v 3 or 4 watt. Speedo and dash bulbs are the same.

 

on the original dash pan there is only one wire per light bulb as the bulbs were grounded though the dash pan to the frame. On the replacement there are 2 wires on each bulb because the bulbs are eclectically isolated from the dash pan.

 

The large black strip then gets cut into sections. I can check, but I do not think my 84 has any iso-strips for the circuit breaker assemblies. And except for a top end (and the 32 amp charging system) it is completely factory stock.


J&P carries a whole selction of bulbs. And herz another source for you as well

http://www.donsbulbs.com/cgi-bin/r/t.pl

 

On the original dash pan there is only one wire pre bulb, each bulb is grounded through the dash pan to the frame. On the after market dash pan there are 2 wires per bulb this is due to the bulbs being electrically isolated from the dash pan. The ground wire will need to be used as I found out the hard way. I cut them off and then ended up soldering them back on.

 

Alrighty then...that makes sense.

 

wagner number 53 auto parts store

 

Boom! Dats what I’m looking for! Thanks

 

Y’all are great. Hey Tom...did I,paint it the right color?