Autometer Gauge Lighting

dlsdj:

I took them out but when I installed my overlays, I used the dimmer wire (blue with pink stripe in my '98) as the power source. This worked nicely.

If I understand your post, you had the AM power wire connected to both the brown and the dimmer wire. This will not work, you need to have only one power source to the AM cluster. MM&FF did an install articles a few months ago but I can't remember what they tapped into for power. I will look it up tonight and post back. In the mean time, you can try a search because I have read posts about the problem that you describe. Somebody has figured it out!