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Old 03-11-2017, 11:01 AM   #6
VetteVet
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Re: Weird temp gauge problem.

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Originally Posted by Clint72 View Post
Alright, so I went ahead and pulled the instrument panel.
It is in fact a factory gauge instrument panel truck, but there are a couple cut and spliced wires.
Tomorrow I'm gonna check all the wiring out and get it corrected.
I'll post some pictures too!

Hopefully I can figure out why my battery gauge isn't working too!

To start with, if you have a gauge cluster then there won't be a light to see, unless someone has tried to install one. There is a spot in the gauge cluster
for the light but no wiring was run to it. The wire was on the pin 5 spot on the light cluster plug and it was moved to the pin 6 on the gauge cluster. Just like Ray said.

Here are the wiring differences between the two.

light:

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Gauge:

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The pins are 1 through 6, bottom left to top left, and 7 through 12, top right to bottom right


Gauge layout:

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The dotted red line is the missing wire for the temp light



Light cluster on ignition switch- green wires one from sender and one to the no.5 cluster plug pin 5.
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