Improve those dash lights

Well just finished doing my contortionist impersonation , they are all in and working except 1 that I have to find a replacement socket for so I left the "Brake" light empty no biggie , I'll try to get pics after dark but found my speedo is rocking along a horizontal axis in its housing , you can grab the cable and move it up and down and the face of the guage rocks with it , I'm wondering if it is blocking the light on the big number side since that bulb is down around 4 o'clock or so and the cable is holding it at an angle with the bottom of the face forward , going to have to figure a way to rock it so the top is forward and see if that lets more light in where I need it .
FFS just never ends eh !