Looking for some advice on what I may encounter with my plan and here it is, pictures below are the gauges
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out of a mid eighties F-whatever pick-up,
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and here is my wiring schematic
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for the harness I installed in the truck.....
I am electrically dumb but it appears that there are no other outside relays gadgets or gizmos that I need to make these gauges work?
It appears after reading about wire # 35 that all I need to do is jump off of that single wire down to the positive side of the gauges and then run whatever sensor wire I have coming from the engine/fuel tank to the other side of the gauge.......
I know it just can be this simple!! Am I wrong?
I will be fabricating these gauges into an existing 52 faceplate ( I hope ) and just need some advice on what I am missing.
Also how do I tell which of the terminals on the rear of these gauges is positive, I am thinking that it does not matter, am I right.
One other question, I still will be using ( trying until you tell me otherwise ) my original 52 fuel tank sending unit, what am I going to run into there......I believe that the sending units are calibrated to the gauges as a matched pair, so does that mean it will not work at all or does that just mean its gonna give me a funky reading in which I will just have to get accustomed to over time but can learn to recognize and fill the tank accordingly.
Thanks again guys for all of your help!!
I am electrically dumb but it appears that there are no other outside relays gadgets or gizmos that I need to make these gauges work?
It appears after reading about wire # 35 that all I need to do is jump off of that single wire down to the positive side of the gauges and then run whatever sensor wire I have coming from the engine/fuel tank to the other side of the gauge.......
I know it just can be this simple!! Am I wrong?
I will be fabricating these gauges into an existing 52 faceplate ( I hope ) and just need some advice on what I am missing.
Also how do I tell which of the terminals on the rear of these gauges is positive, I am thinking that it does not matter, am I right.
One other question, I still will be using ( trying until you tell me otherwise ) my original 52 fuel tank sending unit, what am I going to run into there......I believe that the sending units are calibrated to the gauges as a matched pair, so does that mean it will not work at all or does that just mean its gonna give me a funky reading in which I will just have to get accustomed to over time but can learn to recognize and fill the tank accordingly.
Thanks again guys for all of your help!!