white face gauges from mustangtuning.com

M

millatime

New Member

Oct 23, 2003

370

0

0

Palm Harbor, FL

Feb 25, 2004

#1

• Feb 25, 2004

• #1

the kit comes with a resistor becaue these are reverse glow. heres my problem:

1 the resistor has three wires from it-one with 4 female adaptors, one with a brightness switch, and one with a positive and negative wire. On the gauges, there is only one male connector...so which does the male adapter plug into and what do I do with the other three? Also, the instructions that came with it say to locate a solid ground and attach the black to it...what solid ground did you guys use? Then instructions then say to attach the red wire to the power source which is connected to the parking lights...again what wire goes to the parking lights?

thanks for any help you may have

 

Bornstanger

Uncle 'Kiss Me''Kiss Me''Kiss Me''Kiss Me'er

Founding Member

Oct 20, 2001

476

0

26

Strongsville, OH

Feb 25, 2004

#2

• Feb 25, 2004

• #2

you could always go to the library and ask if they have electrical diagrams for your year and have them print them out for you. if not, go to the ford dealer and ask for the same thing.

 

M

millatime

New Member

Oct 23, 2003

370

0

0

Palm Harbor, FL

Feb 25, 2004

#3

• Feb 25, 2004

• #3

The wiring I am asking about is from the gauge kit...its aftermarket so I don't think the dealer would have that

 

Bornstanger

Uncle 'Kiss Me''Kiss Me''Kiss Me''Kiss Me'er

Founding Member

Oct 20, 2001

476

0

26

Strongsville, OH

Feb 25, 2004

#4

• Feb 25, 2004

• #4

well your best bet then would be to contact mustangtuning or the manufacturer and see if you can get some clarification then. other than that, can't really help ya...sorry.

 

M

MustangMIKE2k2

New Member

Apr 6, 2003

17

0

0

NJ

Feb 25, 2004

#5

• Feb 25, 2004

• #5

I just installed mine the other day. I connected the positive lead to the blue wire w/white stripe. It's located right behinde the headlight knob. I can still control the light output of the gauges with the stock diming knob. I grouded it on a bolt located behide the dash.

 

M

millatime

New Member

Oct 23, 2003

370

0

0

Palm Harbor, FL

Feb 25, 2004

#6

• Feb 25, 2004

• #6

i thought the directions said not to use the factory dimmer as a power source

 

M

millatime

New Member

Oct 23, 2003

370

0

0

Palm Harbor, FL

Feb 25, 2004

#7

• Feb 25, 2004

• #7

bump

 

01GT eibach

Active Member

Nov 18, 2002

1,075

0

36

Pittsburgh, PA

Feb 26, 2004

#8

• Feb 26, 2004

• #8

For the hot, I used the infamous brown wire. For the ground, I could not find a decent bolt not mounted in plastic, so I soldered the ground wire to the metal frame bar that is right there.

 

M

millatime

New Member

Oct 23, 2003

370

0

0

Palm Harbor, FL

Feb 28, 2004

#9

• Feb 28, 2004

• #9

just a follow up...these gauges slide right over the needles,no need to remove them-niice. I also wired into the brown wire going to the headlight knob with no problems and grounded the black wire to a bolt in the dash. Easy work, especially considering I didn't have to drive around with cruise control set to put the needles back on.