how do you a access guage lights on a 99

 

Just take it apart. Ull see where they go in at.

 

Really dude? How do you build a house?

"Just build it. Ull see how it gos together."



Put your shifter in neutral
Grab the dash bezel at the bottom and pop it off
Put your shifter in park
Take off the 4 screws it conceals for the upper dash
Climb in the floor board and remove 2-3 screws for the lower dash panel
Pop off the lower panel
Undo the stupid rubber collar for the steering column
Remove the screws holding large metal plate at the bottom of the dash
Remove the plate do you can access the side of the headlight switch
Find the button the side of the switch inside the dash
Push it in while pulling out the plunger for the lights
Tilt your steering wheel all the way down
Pop off the upper dash piece, finagling it around the steering column
Remove the 4 screws around the gauge cluster
Pull the gauge cluster out
The lights turn like 1/4 turn to be removed

Recommendations: Remove the rubber collar for the steering column entirely and enlarge the hole for the headlight plunger slightly so that the upper dash can be removed and reinstalled without disturbing the lower dash. This will save you a lot of time down the road if you ever have to get to the gauges again.

 

Awesome instructions...seriously....you have any for getting at the shifter and 4x4 lights?

 

Should just need to pry under the plastic trim with a flat head. Mine pop off by hand.

 

I've taken mine off a million times to reset the gauge cluster because of NO BUS.

Yep, on the 97+ interior, just grab and pull. Uses about the same clips as the dash bezel. On the gear shifter, to remove the handle, pull straight up. Don't twist it you'll break stuff.

 

I'm going to have to try this too.

 

Heyyy dont bother to take it apart for no bus...just push on it... Itl solve it haha...

 

I've pushed, pulled, banged and punched. When mine looses connection, I treat it like a Nintendo cartridge: pull it out, blow on it and stick it back in.

 

Hmmm maybe replace the female plugs. Or cut off and strip new wire ends and re wire the female plug... Idk, just that sounds like a *****... Re do the ****

 

I brought home a 98XJ a couple of weeks ago, that had been rolled over.

I got everything working but the dash cluster and radio.

After checking the fuses, taking out the cluster, etc,

I pulled the radio, and here is what I found, a bunch of cut wires.

I do not know if this is keeping my cluster from working or not.

I read somewhere on here to connect two of these wires together

to see if the cluster would work, but i can not remember which two wires..

Fuse # 6, 9, & 12 have something to do with the dash..and one fuse under the hood...

 

Fuse number 6 is the guage lighting

 

The mini 25 amp fuse under the hood. Bottom row of the Mini fuses In the middle goes to the cluster as well.

 

There's a better fix that involves adding female spade connectors to every contact on that back of the gauges but I haven't felt like digging into that.