ok i wasnt happy with the way the guage looked or sat in the dash, so i took it back out and started afresh, and i thought i'd give pics as a step by step to help anyone:
first thing i did, pretty obvious, spray the din plate,
i then drilled a hole in the passenger footwell next to my power cable for the vaccum tube (dont have a pic of this but i can get one if anyone wants??
then, feed the tube through the dash and out the din hole, and plug it in. then wire up the electronics.... the red cable goes to the yellow from the head unit ISO, the black goes to the black earth, and the orange to the orange with white stripe
note this is going to give you constant illumination, it will not come on and off with your headlights, only with your keys.....
hardest part was working out how to get the din plate to stay put, i came up with an idea which has worked really well but was hard to do lol.
i took this bracket which was left over from my air filter, and bent it into a U shape, and using self tapping screws (cpwboy i know
) i screwed it into the plastic sides
after alot of adjustments to the bractet, its location, and the location of the holes etc.. i managed to get the guage bolted to the bracket from underneath where the head unit was, and bolt everything into place.
next up was getting the head unit to go back in, which was no easy task as i had to unscrew the panel in the passenger footwell so that i could putt the iso lead down to clear room for the head unit to slide back. and after about an hours work, it all looks and fits brilliantly
i just have to get my next two dials now, then i'll have soime fun trying to fit them in aswell :embarassed:
