Got an assortment of blue LED bulbs and one worked reasonably well for the shift indicator (to match the HVAC control and settings on the radio), though a bit dark and purple-y, but better than the bright white that lit up the interior like a scene out of a movie.
Started the hard top wiring project today. I had forgotten that I had bought a different year harness for the dash and had planned on removing the needed wiring out of the purchased setup to convert my original harness. I had forgotten that was to be the plan. I was halfway done removing the original for a total harness swap, when I realized the cluster connections were different. No problem. I'll just remove what I need from the donor and integrate as needed.
Except............one little wire runs from the defroster switch to the cluster and with the connections being totally different, I couldn't unpin the wire from the donor and insert it into the original connector. Crap. My 3 day weekend project was now in jeopardy. I was able to pull a pin out of the original connector, took a picture of the needed pin, and ran up to work to check our offerings. Found one single pin in the 100 drawer bin of pins. Yay.
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Now I can get on it tomorrow, hopefully without any other issues. Lol. Yeah, right.