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Engine New gauges... help!

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    New gauges... help!

    Alright, so my AC techincs gauges finally came in. Aside from missing an inverter for the EL part of the gauges, I think I may be missing another part, but that's a little later in the post...

    So here's what I have (and will have).

    1. Voltmeter gauge. I'll just have to find an inverter for these items, and that will solve that problem. As for hooking up, thats just an easy wire to an accessory source and ground to the chassis.

    2. Oil pressure. It's an electronic gauge - not a manual one where you use a tee and actually have oil coming into your interior (protentially scary!). However, it did not come with a sender. Now I am wondering if there is a stock sender that I can tap into somewhere that I can use, instead of going out and trying to find a matching pressure sender. (engine is a 1.6:dx - have a haynes manual - havnt been able to find any info about this though). Any help?

    3. Tachometer. This will be the third gauge. As much as I look and read through both here and vvti.net, I cant find an actual solid answer of where to tap into for the lead for this (either on the distributor, or on the ECU). IF anyone have a pic or a reference to it in the manual, that would be great (it's an auto tranny btw...)

    4. Temperature. Might put this one in, though it's kinda redundany, seeing as how there is a stock on in the cluster. Again, I cant find the right reference to the lead that this one has to connect to (I assume it could be tapped into right off the stock cluster?).

    Hope someone has the answers, or can find a link to a post that I overlooked while searching that has the answers (or reference the haynes manual.)

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