gauge lights = help

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  1. 302-72-mav

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    I am trying to get my gauges to light up so i can see them at night

    my blinker / warning lights work

    so i pulled the gauges out and found out that the 2nd wire from the top on the right of the conector witch is the blue with a red stripe wire powers the gauge lights but is not geting power ? i know this because i ran power to the back of the cluster with it out and they all light up

    so i think it might be the lights switch so i pull it off and i run power to all of the wires on it one by one and the lights still dont come on ?

    so what i am thinking now is to run it to one of the other wires that runs down to the runing lights ?

    and thinking of finding some other led's and drilling some holes and adding some to make it BRIGHT
     
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    You do know there's a fuse for that, right? If you've checked it, the dimmer rheostat on the headlamp switch may be the problem...
     
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    it's not the fuse

    i had to replace the light switch when i bought this car the shaft was broken off so i pulled the one out of my 72 mav that i know worked and i put it in there
     
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    Turn the knob back and forth, while checking for power.
     
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    The blu/red feeds all dimmable lamps. It originates at the light switch, goes to the fuse, from the fuse it goes to a splice that feeds the dash cluster, heater illum., radio illum., shift quadrant illum., and console illum. Pretty easy to follow those out with a multi-meter. If you're dead-sure the fuse and switch are good, a broken wire is the only other possibilty...
     
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