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foxmustangman

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So I got a vacuum gauge for my car. It was used and has no instructions or anything. Where can i hook it up so that it will work? Thanks.
 

Mr. Rustypwnz

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the tree
 

foxmustangman

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That thing in front of the firewall on the drivers side?
 

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yup or any vacuum source.
 

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i hooked the vacuum up to the free port on the tree next to the BB. There was a free port, with a plug over it.

For electrical i wired it to the ahstray light. that way ti dims with the rest of the gaugepod.
 

foxmustangman

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Oh okay. Cool. Yeah, I was wondering if I could hook it up to any vacuum line or if it had to be a specific one. Thanks for the help.
 

Mustang5L5

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I'd go to the main vacuum tree. There's a spare port on it you can use
 

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I used the spare port on the tree and I wired it to the dimmer switch as my ashtray light be broke
 

foxmustangman

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Sweet! It works. I Wired it up to my light that tells me what gear I'm in, since I got that B&M shifter i havent used it, so it works perfectly.
 
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