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Old Sep 28, 2007 | 05:32 PM
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How are you guys wiring up your apillar gauges?

What i really mean is where are you going down with your wires at? cutting a hole in the apillar cover and then putting the gauge pod cover over it?
Where are you getting power from?
Where is a good ground at close to the dash?

right now i only have a tach to mount in my triple apillar cover but will add a wideband and DPIC later

i know the tach signal wire is the white one from the gauge cluster
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Old Sep 28, 2007 | 07:50 PM
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run the wires between the two pillars right down to your fuse panel. There is a small screw with a metal bracket on the bottom of the dash almost directly under the steering wheel, I grounded to that.
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Old Sep 28, 2007 | 07:55 PM
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I went to auto-zone and bought this..



just run one long wire from the fuse block under dash to the top pillar, I branched off of that one wire.
did the same for a ground.
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Old Sep 29, 2007 | 12:41 PM
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i cant find the fuse that has a lead running off of it anywhere

where did you hook up your lights to? i have a gray and a white wire coming from the headlight switch that is a switched hot, which one is dimmed?
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Old Sep 29, 2007 | 01:58 PM
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i bought a fuse block from o'reily for like 12 bucks. it has 6 terminals its pretty nice. i drilled holes in my a-pillar to run the wires
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Old Sep 29, 2007 | 05:06 PM
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i got it installed, drilled a 3/8 hole in the side of the apillar. found some quick connects, so no soldering. got a switched hot from the back of the gauge cluster. ive got my lights working on it, but which one is the wire that is dimmed? i can only find 2 switched hots coming from the headlight switch and neither one is dimmed
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Old Sep 29, 2007 | 05:46 PM
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purple i think...
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 02:18 AM
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I just did mine the other day its a brown wire at the top right if u pull it out and look at it from the top. Thats ur dimmer. Make sure u have the parks on when u check the auto lights screw with ya. Also I got power for the switched power source by putting a regular female connector onto the blade on the fuse block. There is a block that looks like it is supposed to have a 2x2 connector on it it has like 6 blades open, one of those has keyed power. its on the center left of the fuse block. Hope this helps!
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 07:32 AM
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Yeah i hooked mine into the dimmer wire too...its been a while so i cant remember which one but its nice to have them dim at night
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 05:04 PM
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You get it done yet? Pics!!!
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