Ty'1987
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- Sep 23, 2013
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- Location
- Lansing, mi
- First Name
- Tyler
- Truck Year
- 1987
- Truck Model
- K10
- Engine Size
- 350
I am fixing a horrible mess of hacked wires on my "new" GMC 87 K10, so of course I've got my truck's dash pulled apart and now I'm stuck. The drivers side fuel sender wire has been spliced, spliced, and respliced and now meanders from the sending across the frame to a loom along the inside pass. frame and terminates at a connector that isn't plugged in (dont know what to plug it to) and was tucked away up in the frame.
So now, not knowing where the existing wire is supposed to be, I decided to run a new wire from the unit up the drivers side loom with the brake light wires and through the firewall (hole has already been made for other aftermarket gauges by PO) to plug into the gauge. What I wasn't expecting to find when I pulled the gauge is a plug with all the wires running out from a printed circuit board to all the different gauges.
There are many pink wires in the loom plugged into the cluster, so which one do I need to cut and resolder? Or can I bypass the circuit board and plug the wire into one of the pins on the back of the gauge?? I don't know if those pins are the electrical connectors or just screws holding the gauge in. They are the square holes in the PCB with metal flanges around that I'm looking at.
Thanks so much in advance, and hello by the way. This is my first post to what's been an incredibly helpful forum!
So now, not knowing where the existing wire is supposed to be, I decided to run a new wire from the unit up the drivers side loom with the brake light wires and through the firewall (hole has already been made for other aftermarket gauges by PO) to plug into the gauge. What I wasn't expecting to find when I pulled the gauge is a plug with all the wires running out from a printed circuit board to all the different gauges.
There are many pink wires in the loom plugged into the cluster, so which one do I need to cut and resolder? Or can I bypass the circuit board and plug the wire into one of the pins on the back of the gauge?? I don't know if those pins are the electrical connectors or just screws holding the gauge in. They are the square holes in the PCB with metal flanges around that I'm looking at.
Thanks so much in advance, and hello by the way. This is my first post to what's been an incredibly helpful forum!