hey yall, how ya been?

I have a question, I am wiring up my gauges today, I have a water temp gauge, oil pressure, and volt meter. now the question i have run into is 2 things

1) what wire can I hook the positive side of of my voltmeter so its not always just connected to the battery and i can see what its charging at??

2) what wire can I tap/splice into for the positive side of my gauge lights???

1979 F100 302 standard cab, no a/c.............

 

The yellow Y connector shown is a keyed power connector.

 

so its also what my radio is hooked to and gets power from............ so what about the lights???? how can I have them the same as the dash lights???

 

you can tap into wire on headlight switch to get gauges to light up when headlights are on I would suppose. I chose to just have gauges light up when key is turned on.

 

yeah, I suppose I could do that.... I will have to look at it this weekend when I have time and it is light out

73, looks like you have about the same basic setup as my truck, cept mines longbed, lol like the signature!

 

Blue/red stripe wire is cluster lighting

 

thanx Dennis, I'll look for it when its light out, and just tie into it

 

Lol thanks. Didn't take me too long to make in photoshop

 

The courtesy light connector, is that for the lights under the dash? I have the lights out of another truck, but it has been a long time since I took them out.

 

Yes that's what that is for

 

hey guys, I was under the dash with my radio pulled out and found a green 2 blade female connector, the wires that feed it are a blue with red stripe (lights) and the yellow with black stripe (keyed power) hope maybe this helps someone, maybe FORD thought it would be nice to have an accesory plug in case someone wanted to add anything to the truck


Thanx Mil1ion and everyone else who has been such a great help.

 

here is a pic of the connector and wires, I have my gauge lights hooked up, work great, just gotta find red bulbs so they will match....................................

 

That's the normal radio power plug.

One side radio power

the other is radio light.

Blue/red stripe is Instrumentation lighting.

 

all the gauges work great, but I now also have a horrible oil leak from the front and rear of my intake manifold, apperantly I forgot those lil gaskets

 

I've always heard to not even use those gaskets on the ends because they have a tendency to blow out. What I heard to do and what I did was just put a big bead of black RTV across the front and the back to take the place of the cork gaskets. It has worked great for me. Good luck. Thanks for the tip on what the radio plug looks like I'm sure mine is in there somewhere I need to dig it out because I'm getting ready to install my radio finally.