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Exactly what my issue was. Was a pain to pinpoint without a multimeter and a lot of patience and a key turning monkey. Poor dude drank a six pack listening to me curse non-stop for 3 hours. Turned out to be a couple broken wires tap dancing on eachother causing a dead short.

Sounds like a short circuit in the harness maybe? Have you ran through it with a test meter? I had a crack in my harness that caused all kinds of havoc with the ignition switch.

I just had the exact same issue. It was a short with the ignition switch.

What tach are you using? On a basic tach you'll have power, ground, lighting and sender. Some will have a shift light wire as well. Red would got to power, black to ground and white to the lighting circuit. If you are looking for the dimmer circuit a test meter will find it fast by dropping the...

I hear ya. Everything goes into a shrink tube one the connectiions are verified and working. I don't leave anything dangling for a short. I just ordered a new accessory harness and fuse box. I want it to be easy access to a possible problem.

The next thing I did was pull all of the new gauges out of the dash insert and tested them individually... Every light, every sender, every power connection. I watched a friend pre-wire his entire dash only to fight with bad splices and the bulk of working behind the dash insert. I made up a...

The next step was locating the senders and wiring up the ones that came with the gauges Here's the tach sender attached to the first spark plug in the firing order. The closer you clamp it to the plug the better the tach signal. Here the temp sender. This was a bit of a pain because you have...

I can give details on how I did it, but let it be known that I made a lot of mistakes along the way... Some of which I am still sorting out. It's not really rocket science but if you're like me and are starting with a zero knowledge base then it's daunting. If I had to do it again I would have...

Thanks. I stole this car for 2500 without knowing anything about car or engines. This forum pretty much taught me how to tear down and rebuild a small block. This electrical stuff is still a bit of a mystery to me but the little victories are a rush. Got the new turn signal dash lights blinking...

Just a set of Equus electric gauges and a a-body dash insert from Redline. Pretty low-dough solution but this is my daily driver.

nothing too impressive. Way better than when I started though.

Good deal. Thanks. That seemed to do the trick. I have power back in some places but not all. I have no headlights and only one working parking light. Seems that the battery is undervolted. Only putting out about 10.5v. Stero and most accessories work. Starter won't crank.. Making a machine gun...

Sorry... Double post. I'm Internet challenged too. I'm doing this on my phone so forgive the misspellings.

Awesome. Where would I connect those now that there is no ammeter? Seriously.. I'm an eletrical moron.

Hi all. I have been using this forum unregistered for about a year now because you have answered or solved all of my engine problems. Kudos to you smart people for your help. Now I'm on to wrecking bigger stuff... Like the entire electrical system. Ok.. First off.. I'm electrically...