3.4 Supercharger boost gauge light

I have gotten a 2000 truck with a black trd boost gauge and I was unable to find photos or a thread about how to replace the light in the back of the gauge. Has anybody replaced the light in their trd gauge and if so, could you post some photos? Thank you

 

If it’s an original TRD type boost gauge, I don’t think you can. Mine is very dim and would benefit from a bulb replacement. Before I installed mine I was gonna do it until I saw there was no real way to take it apart to do it......

 

Hmm, maybe it’s possible to paint the dial in the same kind of paint watches use for nighttime? This might only look good on the black faced ones though

 

What do you mean??

 

I mean to make the white and orange paint on the dial glow at night with glow in the dark paint.

 

Oh.... I gotcha. But even still. You’d have to take it apart to paint it. If you could take it apart you could just change the bulb. Mine technically does work but it’s super dim.

 

yeah, makes more sense to replace the light if I can get it apart. do you know how to get the pillar mount off? Id rather not break the buttons that connect to the pillar as they are 19 years old now.

 

Ours are different. My pillar holds 2 gauges and the whole pillar comes off as a whole. Yours I believe is a mount that holds one gauge. I believe it is screwed into the pillar. Send me a pic.....

 

I went out and looked, its a bunch of pins that are press fit with ridges. wasnt thinking and didnt get a photo

 

how do you like the aem gauges vs the oem trd boost gauge?

 

The TRD gauge is a mechanical gauge. Nice and simple. The AEM ones are electrical. If I didn’t find the rare TRD gauge I’d have all AEM’s

 

I like that cravenspeed setup

 

Thanks man. The pillar setup is from lotek and yes the column is cravenspeed.

 

I got the same flex pods too just so I have a semi low key setup haha

 

Nice, what supercharger do you have on your 4cyl

 

I always feel that a good old fashioned mechanical product is going to be outlasting a new digital one, especially since I could fix it if something breaks.

 

Yeah I agree. It’s simple and easy

 

I replaced the light recently, it was a p161 I believe, gauge slid out of the pillar and the light came out with a counter clockwise turn. Pretty easy but the wires and vac wire went through the door rubber so I had to pull that out