Worked like a charm. Thank you sir :beer:
Here's what I did with the original inverter.
Broke off the front piece and used the rest to hold the replacement inside of it.
Mine was built August of 02.
I noticed that when I was looking at this guide I stopped and thought it had already been fixed but it was stock. Nothing had been done before.
Do these inverters come faulty sometimes?
I fixed mine, then they went out again the next day
Its a very common failure on the 03/04 cobras. Are you the original owner? Are you sure this is the original cluster for your car? Maybe its a dealer replacement part?? I personally have never seen a black stock inverter. Buts its not too hard to beleive ford may have had more than one source for this part.
Never heard of one failing on a super low mileage car. So I suspect the inverter just has a 'burn out' factor.
Was it the speedhut inverter that burnt out (next day)?? ....please explain..
Yep, the speedhut inverter is the one that went out again. I ordered another one already so imma swap it out again an hope for the best.
I have no clue if my cluster was ever replaced but I'm considering just buying another at this point.
I have seen black OE inverters. The ones ive seen where in 2003 cars the 2004's ive seen are whiteish. I had a speedhut inverter go out on me. I upgraded to the bigger unit on my car that DOES NOT fit in the cluster. I ran its wires into the cluster and the inverter is mounted inside my dash. It also changes color from blue to green.
After my first speedhut unit went out I bought a used OE cluster for $250 and stole it's inverter. It worked 2 weeks........I was pissed. $250 bucks is alot of speedhut inverters.
Big thanks to cave eagle fixed my instrument cluster and saved a ton of money. You the manI have been dealing with non-working gauge ligts (intermittently) on my cobra for the last 6-8 months. Sometimes they would work for a few hours or days and sometimes they would not work at all. I even left the car with the local ford dealer for a few days, thinking that surely they would know how to fix them. No luck and a lot of frustration..
The fused were all good and the light switch proved to be working fine. A few threads on here suggested that the 'inverter' might be the problem. I was reluctant to beleive this since the issue was intermittent and thought it was more likely to be a 'ground' issue. I went through the wiring as much as possible and did not find any bas grounds or connections. A fellow poster here, helped out with the part# inverters he has used from Speedhut.
So last weekend I swapped out the aftermarket inverter and my lights are working great!! They seem to be just as bright and look as close to stock as I would expect. I thought I would post some pics of the process, since I had a difficult time finding a good source for a gauge tear-down last weekend.
go figure I installed a new inverter and mine still doesn't work...my damn luck
Just tried this with no luck. Double and triple checked all the connections. Any idea what else it could be???