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Old July 26th 2003, 19:37
Ron Roberts Ron Roberts is offline
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rewiring can be a nightmare if you are as ignorant as me. But there is hope. Study the Bently manual, and take it one wire at a time, (or one circuit at a time) and it CAN actually start to make sense. The problem is with the stock system there are alot of things tied together. If every load had its own switch and its own wire to the battery it would be simpler, but a massive amount of wires. If you are planning to have all aftermarket guages you might check out Wattsons streetworks for their full system consisting of wire harness and fuse panel. If you are keeping the stock guages, the watsons might still be a good bet but it was never clear to me from talking to them how their kits adapted to the different years and models with different instrument clusters. What I did was buy a 14 slot fuse panel for the blade type fuses and use it for added accessories like more guages, remote oil cooler fan etc. and a few other items like the wipers. This cleans up the mess on the stock fuse panel which can be used for things like flashers and whatever you don't feel up to messing with.

Ron
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