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Gauges
- ok , i received my indiglo gauges by ac this past week.
- but before i searched to see if i could do a diy today.
- well i had problems but i got some questions
1. can i just slip the ac gauges over the stock ones instead of removing the needles?
2. to power the ac gauges their is a little black box with two wires (black and red). supposedly i am supposed to hook the red wire to another wire in the cluster and the black to the ground wire. where is the ground wire in our car?
- any advice would be greatly appreciated
- but before i searched to see if i could do a diy today.
- well i had problems but i got some questions
1. can i just slip the ac gauges over the stock ones instead of removing the needles?
2. to power the ac gauges their is a little black box with two wires (black and red). supposedly i am supposed to hook the red wire to another wire in the cluster and the black to the ground wire. where is the ground wire in our car?
- any advice would be greatly appreciated
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Rep Power: 0 just wrap it around one of the screws. that should work i believe.
also, what kind of indiglo's are you using. APC SpeedGlo's require you to remove the needles. Not sure about the other ones.
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also, what kind of indiglo's are you using. APC SpeedGlo's require you to remove the needles. Not sure about the other ones.
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Yeah what kind of gauges?
The ground...nice thing to learn how to do. When I was a stupid lad a while back, I didn't know jack crap. So when I wanted to ground stuff, I would extend the wire, and connect it to another ground wire. Sure enough it worked, but was it smart? No! Was it logical? No!
Hehe, so basically the ground/black wire can be connected to ANY metal surface (unpainted is prefered). So if you have a screw, or a bolt, just strip off the insulator off the wire, then wrap the wire under the screw/bolt and tighten the screw/bolt back. There you go. I would suggest actually using those little clips that go around the screw/bolt. Makes for a much cleaner install! If you have any more questions, let me know!
The ground...nice thing to learn how to do. When I was a stupid lad a while back, I didn't know jack crap. So when I wanted to ground stuff, I would extend the wire, and connect it to another ground wire. Sure enough it worked, but was it smart? No! Was it logical? No!
Hehe, so basically the ground/black wire can be connected to ANY metal surface (unpainted is prefered). So if you have a screw, or a bolt, just strip off the insulator off the wire, then wrap the wire under the screw/bolt and tighten the screw/bolt back. There you go. I would suggest actually using those little clips that go around the screw/bolt. Makes for a much cleaner install! If you have any more questions, let me know!
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Rep Power: 0 - ok, i understand how to ground the black wire.
- but, i got a question about the red wire. which red wire do i hook the other red wire. they're are like three wires in the blue cluster. but none on the green one.
- but, i got a question about the red wire. which red wire do i hook the other red wire. they're are like three wires in the blue cluster. but none on the green one.
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