Help with gauge install

[95Cobra302]

I'm installing a pillar mounted water temp guage and might need some help with the wiring. Usually i run the wires to the fuse and wrap it around it, but some dude at the parts store said not to do that. I need a light illumination, and an ignition power so everybody know the easiest and best way to hook'em up, and maybe some pics. Thanks

 

[94 Cobra 5.0]

i would take the 12v and the illum off of the radio connections since they are the easiest to get to without messing with the fuse box

 

[95Cobra302]

Well i need the illumination to come on only when i turn the headlights on, and not on all the time. Which might happen if i hook it into the radio ones.

 

[HISSIN50]

He is talking about the dimming of the radio display, not the actual display (which is integral to the LCD screen inside the radio).

For my pillar, I tapped into the dimmer wire right at the headlight switch - it's a super short run to the pillar from there.

Good luck.

 

[95Cobra302]

I remember i had the instrument bezel and headlight switch off but i couldn't see the wire. How do you get to it?

 

[SeriousSN95]

its the brown wire on the headlight switch for ill.

 

[95Cobra302]

Ok thanks, I saw how this guy hooked everything up to his rear defroster wires so tomorrow I'll pull the bezel off and check those wires.