Which gauges are easiest to install.
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Which gauges are easiest to install.
I need to know which gauges are simplest to hook up. I need two 2 1/16 gauges for my pod. I know I am getting the air/fuel gauge, but which other one is simple to hook up (I am looking for one that I can just tap into existing wires) Thanks,
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Car: 1984 Z28 Hardtop
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Aftermarket gauges don't usually work with stock senders, and you can't run two gauges from one sender anyway.
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I'm not exactly going for the ***** look! I want to know which gauges will be the easiest to hook up, but I am not going to get a gauge that will tell me nothing important. Fuel pressure maybe, but oil pressure I already have. How about oil temp or tranny temp?
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I have two a-pillar gauges in my '92, and it wasn't that hard to do. I have an oil pressure gauge and the air/fuel gauge. The oil pressure gauge is wired to the stock sender, so my cluster's oil pressure gauge doesn't work anymore. The air/fuel was easy, just find the wire on your PROM that is for the O2 sensor (was purple for me) and splice it in.
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people... hello... vacuum guage!!!
It's so simple, even I can do it... In my firewall there was a place to punch through right next to where the hood release cable goes through at your feet... Drill it out... run the vacuum line from the compartment into the cabin... up through the dash along the a-pillar onto the guage... super simple... if it lights up like mine does, get some wire... splice into the wires running to the guages that are operated by the dimmer... super easy...
oh yeah, that is with a mechanical guage by the way... it's super important too.. IMO more important than an A/F ratio guage... (unless you're nonCC carbed)
Hope that helps you out...
It's so simple, even I can do it... In my firewall there was a place to punch through right next to where the hood release cable goes through at your feet... Drill it out... run the vacuum line from the compartment into the cabin... up through the dash along the a-pillar onto the guage... super simple... if it lights up like mine does, get some wire... splice into the wires running to the guages that are operated by the dimmer... super easy...
oh yeah, that is with a mechanical guage by the way... it's super important too.. IMO more important than an A/F ratio guage... (unless you're nonCC carbed)
Hope that helps you out...
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I got my Sunpro guage at Pepboys for $14.99... it came with a line splitter... but if the one you get doesn't have a splitter they sell them all over...
Find a manifold vacuum source, splice the splitter in, run a vacuum line up to your gauge and your done... for me, manifold vacuum was easy... there are already lines that come off my manifold for the vacuum canister and CC... vacuum line is cheap if you screw up anyway... 59 cents a foot or something like that... but it's so easy, don't even worry yourself about it...
I havn't physically installed it yet, but I know thats how I'm going to do it... I'm waiting on my Autometer guage pod and a 2inch tach...
Find a manifold vacuum source, splice the splitter in, run a vacuum line up to your gauge and your done... for me, manifold vacuum was easy... there are already lines that come off my manifold for the vacuum canister and CC... vacuum line is cheap if you screw up anyway... 59 cents a foot or something like that... but it's so easy, don't even worry yourself about it...
I havn't physically installed it yet, but I know thats how I'm going to do it... I'm waiting on my Autometer guage pod and a 2inch tach...
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