???s about hooking up gages

[78olds_ponce]

hi ive got sum ?s about hooking gages in my cutlass.need help with hooking up the oil,temp,volt, rpms gages.like where they go.and how to hook them to where they go..thanks mike

 

[87SS383]

Are you hooking non-stock gauges that are in a different place such as in the D/S Windshield Frame or under the radio? If you're hooking up factory replacements it should just be plug and play.

 

[78olds_ponce]

my bad i meant to say i wanted to know where to hook up after martket gauges,since my car stock gauges dont have oil pressure,rpm's and that stuff. just check engine and speedomiter.

 

[87SS383]

http://www.dixiemontecarlo.com and http://www.gbodyparts.com have some housing for new gauges. All the smaller gauges can be mounted with the correct housings below the radio or on the D/S windshield frame. You can buy a loop for the tach that attaches to the column.

 

[79loserbluebu]

For the tach the green wire will go to the tach terminal on the distributor. White will go to a wire that is hot when your lights are on so like for an underdash light or I beleive there's one closer. Red goes to positive and black goes to a ground.

For oil pressure just take your pressure sending unit out from behind the intake and then use the hardware from the gauge to put that in and route the tiny line through the firewall.

For volts you can do what I did and simply tap into the cigar lighter wire for power and then put the black to ground. The white wires for all of the gauges are the illumination wire so you can put all of those together with the tach one.