i ripped my dash apart only to find i cant even get close to the headlight switch wires. can you tap gauges off the dimmer switch? please help me i need to put this back together very quick.
why did you take the dash apart you can get it from under the dash. i cant remember what color it is but its there use a multimeter and test. if you dont have a meter or know how to use one you should not be doing this job.
aren't all gm's the grey wires for interior lighting(gauges and interior control illumination, shifter lighting ,etc...), i know they used to be
Use the fuse box as a referance for wire colors. Find the fuse for the wires your looking for, and look and see what the color of the wires are going to that fuse at the back of the fuse box.
i tapped in to the fog lights its worked ok but who wants to solder under the dash upside down i might actually get a switch for them and a switch for the boost controller too and wire it all up nice.
just go off the wire that powers the lights for the cluster. I've got my fog light switch's power lead and my tach's light running off it and haven't had a problem! hop online for an engine diagram, i forget what color the wire is...
Project Resurrection is in full swing!
I tapped into my headunit power wire. I've had it hooked up like this forever and never have had a problem. Also, it's easy to find.
some of you really are hacks at this stuff.
n8ball2013 wrote:some of you really are hacks at this stuff.
Look who's talking.
Sorry Nate, you just set yourself up for that one.
Mike Roth
Dude, if you wan't to do it the right way, you should hook your illimination wires for your aftermarket gauges to the same powersource that you stock gauges use. There's other ways to hook up wires than soldering them, if you don't feel like doing it that way under the dash.
The dimmer switch also has the hookups. I believe it's the BROWN wire. I used the GRAY wire and it goes with the factory dimmer, which I hear is bad for the transformer. I need to change that around.
Haha, I know what you're talking about with that ringing. I was all WTF when it first happened. But yeah, if you go the way of the dimmer, just don't use the factory dimmer
