afer much searching with no luck, i thought i might as well ask...

i got a set of reverse lit white face gauges, put them in and all that crap, but im no master electrician and im looking at the wiring harness confused. there are two wires coming out from a dimmer, one red (w/a fuse) and the other red/black that has a metal circle on the end (looks like a ground wire)

any ideas on what to do here?....i thought that i'd just be able to wire them into the power source for the existing lights or even the parking lights, but this thing is kinda weird looking....can anyone help me out?

 

red would be power, black would be ground. not much else to it. the black can go on any unpainted screw (which is why it has the metal "circle"). the red wire would most likely go to the fuse box under the dash. just hook it into the fuse for the instrument lights or whatever. you can put the wire to where the fuse would go in, then shove the fuse in, making sure the wire goes in too. that's the easiest way to do it.

 

how about going to the dimmer?....splice into the red (positive) and cut the metal "circle" off so that i can attach the ground to the ground for the dimmer?....this work?

 

don't the guages come with a dimmer?

 

they do...but i plan on leaving it behind the dash
...im not sure if the stock dimmer will work this way...but it seems easier than going to the fuse box

 

i've never hooked it up to the dimmer, so i don't know how that would work. but i suppose if you find the right wire combination, it would be the same thing. :dunno:

 

schweet...i guess we'll find out

 

its time for you to listen to me...

you're gonna need that dimmer...sometimes they trip out and you need that button to turn em back up...

i tapped my power lead into the wire as it runs into the gauge cluster...it was close and just one of those simple cover and squeeze quick splicers works great...then your gauge dimmer and oem dimmer both work...for fine brightness tuning.

my dimmer switch runs down the inside of the paneling around the steering wheel and pokes its little head out the bottom and its sticky taped to the front of that panel down low so you can harldy see it.

 

that sounds like a good idea....but, which wire going into your cluster did you tap into?...there are three plugs going to the cluster w/ one million wires wires going into each plug

 

then you just attached the ground to a screw behind the dash?