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Hey Guys,

So finally after looking at my busted gauge too long I have decided to buy a new one. Boost/vacuum lines all hooked up went for a test drive all fine, now to hook up the electrical and not sure what to connect where. I already have the cable through and ready to connect to stuff.

Old gauge had the orange not connected to anything, and then the other 2 hooked up to a red and a black wire under the dash. Now I'm not sure what one is what and if previous setup was even connected correctly as it was intermittent with the led working. I would just press the led change button and the light would come sometimes on, so it wasn't connected to the night lights I'm presuming.

The new boost gauge has:

White to 12v dash lighting

Black to ground

Orange to battery

Where do i find these under my dash so I can connect it up. i don't have and electrical test equipment or wire cutting devices just pliers, scissors, knife, electrical tape and zip ties. Just putting the boost lines in made me feel like Macgyver.

cheers

I live northside and if someone wants to do it I could arrange KFC or some drinks of choice as I believe these are the going rates for SAU help.

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Chermy, pulling your dash out sound like a lot of work, but I don't think you can mimic it, there seems to be speaker cable wiring everything to everything and I don't think it goes to the speakers, Chris Rogers said it looked real messy under there when he did my ignition barrel. I might take it to him if I can get time and he isn't busy. Should be a 10 min job for him as the wires are ready to go. He prob take 1 look and know what to join where. Might send him a PM.

If you don't really care about how neat it's going to be, the easiest place to connect it up would be the head unit wiring loom as it will have all 3 of those (depending on headunit, the white to 12v dash lighting would be for a dimmer when you put your lights on which your head unit may or may not have). You can just pick up a fairly decent multimeter for $20-$30 and will do the job. Your head unit will have 12v battery and ground 100% but it depends who wired it and if your head unit actually has the dimmer or not.

Chermy, pulling your dash out sound like a lot of work, but I don't think you can mimic it, there seems to be speaker cable wiring everything to everything and I don't think it goes to the speakers, Chris Rogers said it looked real messy under there when he did my ignition barrel. I might take it to him if I can get time and he isn't busy. Should be a 10 min job for him as the wires are ready to go. He prob take 1 look and know what to join where. Might send him a PM.

^smartest/easiest option for sure. If in doubt see the electric guru.

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