Make sure and avoid getting paint on the clear plastic strips which allow the light to travel from the bulb to the front of the instrument cluster.

The bulbs are housed in a little compartment which originally was white. That compartment yellows after awhile. In that compartment there is a plastic strip (about the size of a stick of gum) that allows for the light to travel through it to the front of the cluster where it throws itself onto the guages.

If you paint the compartment gloss white, there is more light reflecting and therefore it travels brighter through the plastic strip.

Hope this helps

Don

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