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Okay, here's the deal. I'm in one of my favorite wrecking yards (alright so they're ALL my favorites) anyhow I found a 62 2 ton that had an instrument cluster for my 62 c-30. Not only that but it had an oil pressure guage and an ampmeter or voltmeter or whatever it is instead of idiot lights!!!!! I converted to an alternator (3 wire installation) last year so my question is...
drum roll please...
Do I just take the wire off my idiot light and hook it to the meter or is there something else I must do??????
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If your new cluster has an amp gauge just use the fat 10 gauge wire that is on the BATT terminal of the alternator to go from the alternator up to your new amp gauge then over to the batt terminal on the solenoid. You can then bypass your idiot light wire which is self explanatory. (No offense just thinking of Hudson engineers who introduced idiot lights in dash gauges in the first place.... -

If your new cluster has a volt meter... follow the directions for wiring in a volt meter which means one side of the meter will be for the hot or battery terminal and one will be for ground.
There you have it....
Randy