Gauges

[bigjb08]

I am hooking up my gauges and I am kind of stumped. I am trying to find a add-a-circuit fuse thing and I cannot find one anywhere. It is to plug the red 12 v wires from my gauges into the fuse box. The guy at the auto parts store said it was a fuse link, but I dont think that is it. What the directions that raul gave me say this:


Next, remove the cover off of the fuse box. Along the far right side of the fuse box, at the bottom, you will find a 15a fuse, which is also the factory Instrument Cluster fuse.

Remove this fuse and install it into the Add-a-Circuit kit. Install a 3a fuse into the wire-side of the Add-a-Circuit kit. Crimp or solder your red wire coming from the pillar to the red wire on the Add-a-Circuit kit.


So where do I get this thing. Any help is appreciated.

[binder man]

try radioshack

[dikdragon]

As far as I know any auto parts store,that is where I got mine.

[CHUCK]

autozone here has them. Looks like a fuse with a pigtail. I just found a constant hot wire ( fuel tank switch ) and tapped into that circuit.

[superduty4x4]

Another vote for a T-tap into a constant hot.

[jblagg]

t-tap to the ign switch or radio..... something toat comes on w/ the key switch

[blizzardwarrior7]

Yea its usually called a "fuse tap" And there are several things to look for....A device that looks like a fuse with a pigtail coming off of it, sometimes you are supposed to plug two regular fuses into the top of it.....And there are also just fuse taps which slip over the hot side of the fuse, and than you just insert the fuse back into the fuse box...Autozone, and Advance Auto carry both I think.

[Hank]

I installed mine a couple of weeks ago. Got it at AutoZone. It was nothing like what I thot it would look like. Only one kid in the store knew what I was asking about. It is in the display with the fuses. Looks like a black fuse with a pigtail. You plug it in in place of the fuse, put the original fuse in the top of the new piece along with whatever fuse you need for the new circuit you are installing. Really neat item. I have always just stuck my new wire under a fuse and put an inline fuse in the new wire.

[bigjb08]

Hey guys, thanks for the input. I think I got it figured out. I found one today at Auto Zone, no one knew what I was talking about though.

[blizzardwarrior7]

lol, yup, they kind of looked at me like.."huh?" when i asked for one too.