How to hook up elecrical guages

1966 dart wagon said
So basically i'm running a dash light power wire, a guage power wire, then the ground wire runs to the sending unit so that when it is up to pressure(on oil guage) it will ground out more making the guage go up/or down. Does that sound like how they are suppost to be hooked up.

Dash Light Power wire is only hot when the lights are on which is wired to the white wire on the back of the light bulb housing on the gauge. The other wire at the light is grounded.

Gauge power wire is a switched 12v wire (only is hot with the key in the 'run' position)

Then there is a Gauge Ground wire. Directly off the back of the gauge, gets grounded.

Then there is the Gauge Sender wire, which is wired from the back of the gauge to the sender - temp or oil psi...

1966 dart wagon said
anyone got any sugestions for guages to use, i was thinking of just buying one of the under dash pieces with 3 guages in them, amp/temp/oil. and hooking those up. I found a set at my local parts store they looked really good but perhaps a little bit to small for me.i was looking in my jegs today and seeing all of the auto meter guages, i was thinking of your cuda(mike) the whole time :thumblef: looks so freakin awesome. o and nice sig by the way :)

I'm a fan of autometers, but ive never heard a bad thing about VDO or Stewart Warner (which are the big three gauge companies) i went with autometer because i like how they look really. The gauges i have are 2 5/8" inch which is what i prefer. The 2 1/16" are a little too small for my liking, not looking to strain trying to read the gauge. And most of the '3gauge pod' setups ive seen at a local parts store tend to be mechanical gauges.

Lastly, if you haven't done so. I highly recommend bypassing the stock AMP gauge. Read the link and thats why I bypassed mine. In doing that its recommended to run a volt gauge.

http://www.madelectrical.com/electricaltech/amp-gauges.shtml

-Mike