Hello all,
I spent last night searching this forum but failed to find the info that I need. Probably operator malfunction 8 )
Anyway, I have lost my dash lights on my recent purchase, 1972 450 SL. To start out the dash lights were real dim it looked like most of the lamps were shot, so like the newbie I am I pulled the cluster out as far as I could without disconnecting the Oil line and pulled the dash lights. Well one of the top lights with the long tubes was broken, no lamp and no springed retainer. When I put the cluster back in I had lost all lights on the instruments at all turn sigs etc.. work fine.
I read one thread that alluded to polarity being a factor, is that correct?
I saw several on jumping the Rheostat but I can't see any connections for the dash rheostat .
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chas
I spent last night searching this forum but failed to find the info that I need. Probably operator malfunction 8 )
Anyway, I have lost my dash lights on my recent purchase, 1972 450 SL. To start out the dash lights were real dim it looked like most of the lamps were shot, so like the newbie I am I pulled the cluster out as far as I could without disconnecting the Oil line and pulled the dash lights. Well one of the top lights with the long tubes was broken, no lamp and no springed retainer. When I put the cluster back in I had lost all lights on the instruments at all turn sigs etc.. work fine.
I read one thread that alluded to polarity being a factor, is that correct?
I saw several on jumping the Rheostat but I can't see any connections for the dash rheostat .
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chas