interior fuse panel--taken off?

[Blackened302]

i'm wondering if anyone's ever taken the interior fuse panel off to get to the wiring.

reason: i'm installing my guages (finally--though, just the lights for now) and i wanted to tap into the illumination circuit.

last night i ghetto-rigged it by sticking the wire in w/ the fuse, but i'm not comfortable with that. plan is: **use a wire-tap to tap into the illumination wire from behind the fuse panel instead of sticking the loose end of the wire in w/ the fuse.

anyone ever done this?

 

[HISSIN50]

Paul, it's easier IMHO to grab dimmed power at the back of the headlight switch. Just in case that's an option for you...............

 

[blksn955.o]

If your just wanting light power do what Hissin posted. I am in the process of doing that and making a seperate fuse panel/elec. system for other things but the best way for the guage lights will be at the switch...you should even be able to keep the dim feature.

 

[Blackened302]

thanks guys. that's what i initially wanted to do, JT--grab power from the headlight switch wiring (bought the t-taps for that). i didn't have my volt-meter handy though, so i couldn't test for power.

would either of you gents happen to remember the wire color? thanks!

 

[HISSIN50]

Paul, Light Blue/red is sticking in my brain for dimmed lighting. If you have a test light, ground the test-light, touch the other end of the test-light to this LB/Red wire, and run the dimmer down. Your test light will dim as you run the rhoestat down.

Good luck.

 

[Blackened302]

thanks, JT!