Thanks guys. the warning lights on a 2000 are right on the circuit board for the cluster and don’t have seperate sockets with leads on them. One day when i am feeling adventurous again I will pull it out again and check for continuity with my tester and check the ecu as well. The scanner i have access to is my father-in-laws and he gets kind of ansy if I keep it for too long. This car is in great shape with 210,000 miles on it and still has the original clutch. Ive done a lot of work to it myself including the timing belt a few weeks ago and now have challenged myself to see how long i can keep it running. So that being said, since I can’t always use the scanner, I would like to have the CEL working if feasible just so i know whats going on. This past weekend I was able to fix the non-functioning clock that hadn’t worked since i bought the car 3 years ago from a friend. found a post on Toyota nation about the exact problem. turns out one of the flat resistors had popped up and the solder had cracked. Just heated it up and reflowed it.
That leads me to a question to Cougar, can you tell me more about fixing the lamp driver IC?