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SoldierBoy18 Samba Member
Joined: April 23, 2015 Posts: 31 Location: Lancaster
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 1:08 am Post subject: Where to find wiring diagram for hooking up gauges? |
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Does anyone know where to search to find a wiring diagram for hooking up a rpm gauge and a speedometer . |
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Cusser Samba Member
Joined: October 02, 2006 Posts: 31271 Location: Hot Arizona
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:45 am Post subject: Re: Guages |
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SoldierBoy18 wrote: |
Does anyone know where to search to find a wiring diagram for hooking up a rpm gauge and a speedometer . |
An rpm gauge is a tachometer. You will have separate power feeds from positive and instrument cluster lights, and a negative for ground. For the feed wire from the coil negative terminal #1, you'll need to run a wire from front of VW to the engine compartment. _________________ 1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297 |
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kamesama980 Samba Member
Joined: June 22, 2014 Posts: 323 Location: Columbus, IN
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:05 am Post subject: |
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What Cusser said about the Tach. Most aftermarket gauges will tell you what to hook up to which wire on the gauge but you have to be electrically literate enough to do the car end yourself...too many variations for the tach-maker to list them all.
For an aftermarket speedometer, that's trickier, you'll have to fit some sort of sensor to get wheel RPM in addition to just running wiring to existing components. _________________ -Russell
"You don't get to blame me for how I fix what you break"
1970 VW Beetle
1994 Pontiac Firebird
2001 BMW R1200C
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jspbtown Samba Member
Joined: January 27, 2004 Posts: 5152
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:12 am Post subject: |
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www.egauges.com has a lot of info on aftermarket tach's and speedos. |
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