New Gauges

[nivvy]

I am installing new autometer phantom guages the whole way around.....my question is all of the gauges need to tie into a 12v ignition circuit...and the previos owner had a whole mess of the pushed into the acc spot on the fuse panel....is there a better way to do this stuf...im not gonna buy any painless kits till down the road.....


8 Pack

[MEK-Dangerfield]

If you want to, the red wire that feeds the radio is a good candidate. Back then the radios needed a little current for the tubes and such in the radio. What I'm saying is, the red wire is large enough to handle your gauges. If your like me though, getting up under that dash can be a pain in the arse.

  Mike

[OUTLAW]

What I did on my dash when I replaced the guages was to go to Radio Shack and bought fuse block (4 fuse) then I took the orange wire (on my car) that ran my dash lites originally and ran it to one side of the new fuseblock and all my lite + wires to the other side then I took the accessory wire you mentionred to the second fuse and a third wire from the battery to the 3rd fuse and presently the 4th is open for future improvements. This way yyou will always have a good current supply available for anything you want to hook up safely. Oh ya I mounted the new fuse block onto my heater blower housing where it is easy to get at

[Chryco Psycho]

I would just tie all  the guages togeter & run 1 wire out the the red triple connector or the red lead to the radio as Mike suggested