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[Gearbanger 101]

Found this.....

1987 Ford Mustang Light Bulb Fitment:
1987 Ford Mustang High & low beam headlight uses 9004 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Parking light uses 2357A bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Front turn signal uses 2357A bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Rear turn signal uses 1157 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Rear turn signal uses 1156 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Tail light uses 1157 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Stop light uses 1157 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang High mount stop light uses 921 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang High mount stop light uses 912 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang License plate uses 168 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Back up light uses 1156 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Rear sidemarker uses 194 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Ash tray uses 1892 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Glove box uses 1816 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Map light uses 105 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Dome light uses 912 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Dome light uses 906 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Step/Courtesy light uses 906 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Step/Courtesy light uses 168 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Step/Courtesy light uses 89 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Trunk/Cargo area uses 89 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Under hood light uses 89 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Instrument-general uses 194 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Instrument-general uses 161 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Instrument-general uses 1892 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Instrument-general uses 1893 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Hi-beam indicator uses 194 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Seat belt indicator uses 194 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Brake warning uses 194 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Automatic transmission indicator uses 1893 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Directional signal indicator uses 194 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Radio dial uses 37 bulb.
1987 Ford Mustang Radio dial uses 1893 bulb.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Yeah, I saw that. But some of them are incorrect. For instance, the dome light bulb is a 562 festoon bulb in the sunroof cars (same as hatch)

I have a spare headlight switch. I'm going to pull it apart. My defrost bulb is actually out, so I need to address it anyway. Preferably with LED's as I'm liking how evenly they light up vs the old incandescents

 

[Mustang5L5]

Added a few more. Got my leds for my cluster but that needs to wait


Bulb #67. Underhood light. I believe this changed around 1989 so might be different. Useless light anyway

Glovebox. #194 bulb

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[mikestang63]

Added a few more. Got my leds for my cluster but that needs to wait


Bulb #67. Underhood light. I believe this changed around 1989 so might be different. Useless light anyway

Glovebox. #194 bulb

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I'm too lazy or I'd add LED under dash lights to my 90, Have no clue why Ford stopped that in 89

 

[92NOTCH01]

I've been working on this for a while now....but I want to change EVERY bulb in the car (save the headlights/foglights) to LEDs.

Thusfar I have changed the front and rear turn signals, reverse lights, dome light, corner markers, 3rd brake light, hatch light, & license plate lights.

Every bulb I've bought has been from SuperBright LEDs. They are fantastic. I have also found V-LEDs and they look intereting but I have not purchased anything from them yet so I don't know if they are brighter than SuperBright's.

I will take & post up some pictuers when it gets dark so that things can be seen better.

Eventually, I want to change all the bulbs....the dash illuniation (including the headlight/hazard switches), the glove box, everything.

The next project is to make the corner markers blink with the turn signals. Because of the reduced draw of the LED lights, there is no risk of running two full size 1157 type bulbs in the front. I've ordered a new set of diamond clear corners from 50Resto and when I get them, I'm going to dremel the opening to accept the full size 1157 socket (which I cut off of a junkyard ford) and then wire everything up together. Thus making both the inside and outside lights blink when the turn signal is activated.

After that, its the brake lights and rear markers, then moving on to the dash.

Suggestions? Questions? Comments? Concerns? Contributions?

For the headlights have this guy convert your head lights to HID with projectors. I have seen the quality of his work and it is the best I have seen.

http://www.sickhids.com


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[Boricua86]

Matching dome And hatch light now.

Not that I do any night driving, but beats the old yellow bulbs

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Is the hatchback one a dome light?

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[Mustang5L5]

The one in the hatch is the same dome light as the cars with OEM sunroofs

Ttop and hardtop cars have a different dome light.


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[Boricua86]

The one in the hatch is the same dome light as the cars with OEM sunroofs

Ttop and hardtop cars have a different dome light.


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Awesome, I want to do the same (yes yes I'm copying) lol how difficult was to wire it...

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[Mustang5L5]

No wiring needed. These are direct replacement bulbs. Literally just swap them out


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[Boricua86]

No wiring needed. These are direct replacement bulbs. Literally just swap them out


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Ohh i see, I have an 86... no light back there...m

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[Mustang5L5]

Ok. Got to the cluster. Not really happy how it came out. I don't plan on doing much night driving, but I still had to tackle this.

Years ago I got BBK white face gauges. They had horrible night illumination. Thought led would fix that.

Daytime pic

before

And after adding LED

They aren't as washed out as the pic shows, but still uneven.

Couple notes.

Had to use original bulbs for turn signal. Putting in LED causes blinker to be slower. No real difference in appearance anyway.

Seat belt LED briefly blinks when door switch is pressed/released

Dimmer only dims led on right side of cluster. Left stay bright

When replacing the headlight/hazard bulbs, get the led color you want it to be. I got white led thinking the lens was green. Nope, as you can see...hazard is white.

Not happy with this. Might have to change something


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[Mustang5L5]

And in case you are wondering what's in the headlight switch.

Here's what the other side looks like. Technically it's the same bulb, just with the leads pulled into the socket to make the connection, and a green bulb sleeve

And here's what I attempted to replace it with. Part number 4mm neo from superbrightleds

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[thecerbinator]

I put leds in my rear view mirror interior lights (convertible), my dash, my hvac panel, my plate lights and my head lights and i absolutely love them! The headlights i got from lifetime LED are amazing!

https://www.lifetimeledlights.com/led_lights/9004_headlight_bulb_9004_led_headlight_bulbs_high_low

 

[thecerbinator]

Ok. Got to the cluster. Not really happy how it came out. I don't plan on doing much night driving, but I still had to tackle this.

Years ago I got BBK white face gauges. They had horrible night illumination. Thought led would fix that.

Daytime pic

before

And after adding LED

They aren't as washed out as the pic shows, but still uneven.

Couple notes.

Had to use original bulbs for turn signal. Putting in LED causes blinker to be slower. No real difference in appearance anyway.

Seat belt LED briefly blinks when door switch is pressed/released

Dimmer only dims led on right side of cluster. Left stay bright

When replacing the headlight/hazard bulbs, get the led color you want it to be. I got white led thinking the lens was green. Nope, as you can see...hazard is white.

Not happy with this. Might have to change something


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dont put an led bulb in place of the battery light or parking brake light or any of the warning lights. i only put one behind my parking brake and it stays on all the time now. ive heard it does the same in the other locations. in putting leds into the turn signal bulbs it does slow it down. if you were to go completely led all it takes is picking up a turn signal flasher that will work with leds.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Yeah, for the most part I left the warning lights alone. I did change out the high beam and check oil bulb and left the battery and turn signals alone.

For the most part I blame the guage faces. They never lit evenly, so I don't think they will even with LED.

I was gonna mess some more with it, but the reality is this is a car I rarely drive at night...or even drive at all. Maybe I'll keep an eye out for a stock 87-89 140moh cluster, but I'll let my OCD about this go and move into something else


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[Farrell5.0]

Changed mine over last year, they seem to have turned out well. I haven't driven at night yet so I can't give input on that. I still have to swap out the rear cargo/hatch light, as I ran out of bulbs, ordered more, then got lazy lol need to do climate controls as well.

 

[Mustang5L5]

That looks good. What type of gauge faces are those? They look a hell of a lot more evenly lit then mine

 

[Farrell5.0]

That looks good. What type of gauge faces are those? They look a hell of a lot more evenly lit then mine

I got them from upr, probably about 6 years ago. The dim spot in the photo is even less obvious in person. I don't know if I got lucky with the overlays or if it's just a matter of cleaning the cluster after removing the factory faces. Not saying you didn't clean yours well, but I'm sure there are plenty who didn't.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Mine are BBK and I think I remember that the issues I had were quote common, especially with the 87-89 cluster because the bulb location for that dim spot in the speedo wasn't really ideal. The OEM faces had some sort of reflective backing that helped distribute the light evenly. These BBK ones didn't have them.

I may look into a new set of faces, but at the same time, I don't drive at night really so why bother?

Plus my pic makes it look bad. It's not as uneven in person. I'll just live with it

 

[nickpic]

I have these in all my turn signals.

As far as the turn signal flash...SuperBright has an LED flasher unit that is a direct swap for our stock turn flasher. Its square instead of round and it does not click, but it works perfectly. That is what I have installed in mine. The main problem I've run into is that w/ the LED's there is not enough load to trigger the hazard flasher. Now, I would just swap that out w/ another LED flasher like I have for the turn signals, BUT, that flasher is in the round hole on the back of the fuse panel and can't accept the square design of the aftermarket flasher. I'm still working on a solution to that.

has anyone figured out a solution to this besides using resistors?