Finally took the time to work on two minor issues on the ‘02 XKR

1) changed out all 8 instrument light bulbs. They were all dim and one of the tach bulbs was kaput.


Thanks to the Rev Sam video and numerous posts on the subject I didn’t have any hiccups. And not much to add to the body of knowledge.

One small thing - since I was using LED’s for the larger lamps I was
aware that they are polarity sensitive, and knew that the positive metal connection strip is located on the bottom lamp socket area. With all that a given, I was pleasantly surprised to see the brand of LED’s I purchased were marked positive / negative. That made it a breeze to install the bulbs without having to test each one beforehand.


2) My part load breather o-rings we’re shot. It has dual (2) o-rings on the plug-in connector at the driver side valve cover. Both of them had missing segments. The best fitting replacement was 7mm ID x 2mm section width (11mm OD). The next larger size of 8mm ID x 2mm section width was a NO-GO when I tried to reinstall the breather hose into the valve cover. I used Viton / 75 duro o-rings for the best durability possible (to my knowledge). The full o-ring number is: AS568A-010


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Good that your bulbs were marked. I replaced all mine, after, checking for polarity. Still, better lighting

 

Well done. Sam's video indeed helped me a couple of years ago when I had to remove the instrument panel to replace one of the two tachometer bulbs. Probably should have replaced all the bulbs while I was in there as you did. Fortunately I have not had to go back in there again....