Gear status lights - help please

[Ted_sd]

When my 88 Camry is in reverse the "R" (just below the instrument panel) is not backlit.

Any ideas

[nuron]

Remove the gauge cluster and you should be able to access the gear status lights. They are lit with tiny bulbs that can be found at a junkyard. There are two different kinds of bulbs depending on the year though, that's what I found.

[camryfour]

Heres a thread that has the size of the replacement bulbs

What type of bulbs for gen2 gauge cluster?

[Doctor J]

There are two board designs and two types of lights it hrere.
Importamt :when the car is in park or neutral, is the R indicator glows a little together with P or N?

[monito]

these tiny tiny bulbs, are $10 @ the stealership ><

grab 'em from the junkyard if ya can

i just switched a bunch of them around. i figured that i'm rarely on 1 or 2nd gear, so i swapped those 2 for the O/D light and the D light that burned out on mine

[89 2wd]

mine works if i smack it a couple times when the car is on...i picked up the whole gear indicator assembly out of a 52k orig miles car in the junkyard but haven't installed it yet

[Ted_sd]

How difficult/tricky is it to remove the cluster? Anything I should be careful not to do?

[atobe]

well you have to remove the gauge cover to get to it.. remember once you taken out the 5/6 screws pull it out a lil bit and unhook all the electrical connection for the hazard/defog/cruise first don't keep yanking like it's not there... the PRNDL has a lil more slack cause it's on the bottom.