1. Start at the gear shifter and remove the plasic housing.
2. Next remove the plastic housing around radio/ ignition.
3. remove drivers side under panels (plastic housing under stearing column). Also remove the housing around the stearing column. You may have to reach back and remove two bolts that hold the stearing column at bay. (Mine had a tilt wheel that allowed enough wiggle room to remove dash guage cluster without removing these.)
4. remove screws that hold the gauge cluster. The gauge cluster should then be able to pull out about 1 or 2 inches. That should be enough room to use an angled needle nose to pinch and remove the speedometer cable from the right side (should see a black cable.) You may have to give a slight twist but be sure to depress the tab lock when grabbing with the pliers.
5. The gauge cluster should then pull out 5 to 6 inches. This is enough to disconnect the rest of the (3) cables connected at the rear. Once these are disconnected the cluster should slide right out. I recommend replacing all the bulbs while you have the gauge cluster out. A nice touch is to replace with LEDs.
6. GO SLOW! as not to crack these pastic parts when removing. Jesus Saves!
I just did this to my radio. You must remove the radio for the dash. Open the radio to reveal the circuit board and solder new bulbs on the board. I found the bulbs at Radio shack online.
Remove the two screws that hold the lens on, remove the lens and change the bulbs.
I have an 88 Jeep Comanche and have replaced the cluster bulbs and also replaced the whole cluster to a new cluster with a tach. You have to remove the dash trims (3 screws), then it will expose the screw for the cluster. Remove those and carefully pull out the cluster. It may not have enough slack due to the speedo cable and you may have The Cluster with a tach beside the Speedo plugs in just like the older one with no problem. Just make sure that the speedo cable clip that attaches to the new cluster with a tach fits the same or you may have to replace the speedo cable to match.
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Removing the dashboard is not really a difficult job as long as you do it in a slow methodical way. First remove the top and bottom cover from the steering column. Then loosen the screws holding the front cover from the dash. Remove this cover, this will expose the screws that hold the clocks in place, remove them. The clocks should now be able to be pulled out from the dash. If not then the speedo cable need to be removed. Once the clocks are out you will see were the bulbs are on the back and you will be then able to replace the bulbs.
HOW DO I CHANGE LIGHT BULBS
In a 97-03, the bulbs are soldered into the circuit board of the heater controls. Remove the heater control assembly and disassemble it to the board. Desolder the bulbs and replace with new ones from either radio shack or corvetteradios.com. The bulbs are 12v but I don't know the wattage. CorvetteRadios has bulbs for the CD player as well which are similarly soldered into the circuit board on the face plate.
remove the felt lining in the trunk. this will allow you access to the bulbs.
you need to remove the inside panel to get to these bulbs
Remove the light assy then turn the bulbs countereclockwise to remove the bulbs.
Safely jack the car up, remove lamps,replace bulbs.
To change the dash light bulbs you must remove the instrument panel.