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Excellent post by JoeBob1. Take out the dash, get the TV repair shop to replace the caps for $30 bucks or so, put it back in. Beautiful solution, but I would add this: while you're at the TV repair shop, get them to replace all the canister type caps, not just the three. I was so hell bent on fixing it myself that I didn't think about the TV repair shop, doh!

Hello all. This post may be redundant, I didn't read ALL of the posts in this thread, so my apologies if it is. I have a '93 LS400 and my dash lights had gone finally black after taking longer and longer to come on and also the tach and speedometer were intermittent until engine fully warmed up. I saw in the UK forum, a posting about replacing three cheap electrolytic caps and I tried it and voila! I had my lights, but the tach and speedo were still acting up. So I figured since the symptoms were similar, misbehaving until engine warm-up, there were other caps that may be suspect. I had ruled out the vehicle speed sensors because they aren't the type of things that would be temperature sensitive. So I pulled out the dash cluster again and replaced all of the canister type electrolytic caps. Well, I am happy to report that my dashboard is now 100% functional. Advice to anyone trying to do this: 1. Be very careful and never force a cap off; I got impatient on one cap and pulled some of the wiring off the PCB which I remedied with a hot glue gun. 2. If you don't use exact replacements ( aluminum cans) and intend to use the Radioshack electrolytics which are much larger, lay them as flat as possible otherwise they will stick out and not allow the back cover to sit flush, in which case you may have to drill holes to let them poke out. I took this lazy route and now have 3 holes in the back panel but I don't care as I don't have to look at the back and no wires are exposed. 3. Mind the polarity on the electrolytics. Sorry if I wasn't clear about the tach and speedo. My issue is not with the needle lighting, the needles were stuck at zero until engine warmed up. Good luck and thanks to everyone in this club.

This problem is similar to mine, 93 LS400. The difference is that I get the wobble when braking at 50 mph and up. It's proportionally worse with higher speeds. I'm afraid to touch the brake when I'm doing 75mph, the wobble is so bad. New and balanced tires, front alignment is good. I don't believe it's bent rotors because brakes are smooth under 50 mph or so. Any ideas? I did replace the front shoes and turned the rotors about 5mo. ago. I thought that solved the problem but soon after, like a week it started wobbling again. If you press harder on the brakes then the wobble goes away. Difinitely a wobble. Not pulling. lacanls400