*********A HOW TO FOR DOING YOUR OWN L.E.D. DASH LIGHTS********
This is how I have done mine. Your cars/trucks may vary. So do this at your own
risk!! This is how the ones in my 2003 Monte Carlo SS were installed. They were on a breadboard set up. Not the twist in 194 bulbs. (Would have made this easier)
1.Take apart your dash to the point to where you can get to your dash lights. (Check your repair manuals for this. Normally in the replace a bulb section.)
2. Get the breadboard out. Remember how you did this to get it out of the car and how everything goes back to greater again.
3. Once you get the board out. Figure out on the backside what connections are the ones for the bulbs to be replaced. IF THEY ARE LED?s already you will not have to install the resistors in them. They are already set up to limit the voltage going to those bulbs.
4. Get out your soldering gun. And warm it up. Take some pliers or something that you can grab on to the LED?s that you would like to remove.
5. Figure out witch end of the LED is Positive on the board. With a meter.
6. Heat up the backside of the board connection for the LED?s that you want to remove and pull on the front part with the pliers to remove the LED. This Allow the solder to remain there but out of the way.
7. Now the fun begins. Take the new LED you want to put in the board. Push the legs in to the holes you now have open on the board with the LED?s removed.
8. Make sure you have them in the right direction, Now take the two legs and bend them over Making sure that you get the LED tight to the front of the board but also Making sure not to short it out against anything else on the board.
9. Solder them in to place. Cut off the extra part of the stems as close as you can to the board and make sure it is still snug to the front of the board.
10. After you complete this for all of them you can reassemble and replace them in to your car for a test run. If you did this right then they should light up like normal.
11. If you have gotten this far with out any issues then you should have a nice result and working set of LED?s in place of the old ones. If not well? You need to take them back out and check to make sure you did it right. Or figure out what you did wrong.
As far as the light bulbs that are on the broad with the blue coverings on them, Theses you need to have a resistor on them also. This is not too much different then what you have done thus far. But you will need to solder on the resistor to the positive side of the LED?s then you will need to soldier it to the board so that you can make contact. You should have clearance if Not take a dermal tool and shave the LED?s sown just a small bit at a time till you get it to fit correctly.
REMEMBER ONCE AGAIN THIS IS AT YOUR RISK. SO DO IT IF YOU WANT TO. I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU SCREW UP ON YOUR CAR!!!