1895 sockets

[turbohunter]

Hi guys
Anybody have a source for instrument panel 1895 bulb twist sockets?
I’m missing a couple in the Fairlane.
Thanks

[Gaugster]

I'd check out West Coast Classic Cougars. Do a search for socket and see what's comes up. They have great customer service if you call with questions.

[turbohunter]

Cool thanks
I forgot about them.
Also could use an extra harness if someone has one and just either use that or pop the sockets off of it.

[turbohunter]

Wow great site for original style connectors and pigtails.
Thanks for reminding me about it Gaugster.
Bought a harness pigtail that has the correct sockets on it. I’ll just cut it up. 16 bucks well spent.

[Gaugster]

Glad you found it! They have a great catalog of Ford stuff for sure.

[Keith Stevens]

Don and his staff were great with plugs and harness components needed when I made up the sequential harness for my Shelby.  They have great reference pictures aw s well.

[turbohunter]

Update on this deal.
I have been trying to update my lighting as I’m getting to be an old fart and can’t see my dash as well at night anymore.
I have tried 4 sources of LED lights. All of them work in the 2 wire plastic 1895 sockets. None of them work in the one wire metal sockets. All the LEDs are built .010 thinner at the barbs/posts on the base of the bulb. This makes them pop out of the socket as well as intermittent ground.
If any of y’all know where to get good ole American made LEDs that measure correctly will you pass that along?

[RustyCrankshaft]

You can buy higher quality LEDs from any electronics supply house, but you'd have to mount them to your bulb base.

Have you tried shimming the socket? I had to do that to a couple sockets in my old Freightliner when I put the LEDs in the gauges.

[turbohunter]

How would you shim the socket?

[RustyCrankshaft]

Depends on how the particular socket is built. On the ones I had in the Freightliner I bent the tabs and took the sliding part out of the base and used tine and tie flattened tie wire to raise the "disk" part so the shorter LED was held tight with the same amount of travel with the plate.

[Falcon67]

I would be inclined to use just a little bead of clear silly cone where the bulb neets the base.  Easy enough to peel off/pick loose should a bulb change be required later.