Ok so i ordered the reverse flow guage overlays from american muscle made by stack racing...does anyone know what wire to splice the power wire into? i figured out to splice the ground into the red wire on my car, the cars a 95 gts, so far i just cant get the power wire right, i can get the guages to come on with parking light but not the headlight so far, someone please help ive been working on this for hours upon hours

 

lol wut?? Ground goes to ground. A bare metal part of the chassis...Buy a ring terminal if you have to..They're like 25 cents.

Here's the instructions....Assuming flow is a typo and you meant glow.

http://www.americanmuscle.com/mustan...es-how-to.html

 

I believe the red wire is a ground wire in my car, when tested it came up with 0 voltage, and that write up only has one problem, some mustangs dont have the thick grey wire coming from the center, mine definitely doesn't, i have a skinny brown one, which when i spliced into that one they came on when the parking lights wern't on and when the parking lights were on, but not when the headlights were on, has anyone had the same problem as me? or have the same type of wiring as i do? if so please help

 

Was the car on when you tested that red wire? I'm only asking because a ground wire being red is a bit odd. But all cars are different so maybe not. I'd test it again with the car on to be sure.

As far as the wires on your switch..You want to connect your power to the one that only has power with the car on. Does it come with a dimmer? Check that it isn't dimmed all the way. Alot of them dim once you switch your headlights on as a safety feature...If your dimmer is all the way down it could seem (especially in the day) that it isn't on.

Outside of that I have no ideas. Gl and don't tip your gauges.

 

The dimmer is not dimmed all the way, as far as the red wire i'll go back out and check it once the sun comes up, i thought i did it with the car on but im not sure, its the only wire i havnt tried to put the power into yet so hopefully thats it, the only thing that confuses me is that if i've been using it as a ground then the gauges shouldnt have been working with the parking lights on if the red wire is actually a power wire, because the guages wouldn't have been grounded to anything, but at this point anything is worth a try

 

Here, this will help ya. http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-foru...ow-gauges.html

 

Thanks i got it working...it ended up being that i only tested the red wire with the parking lights which it has a reading of zero then, thats where the problem was, it worked fine as a ground while the parking lights were on but as soon as you used the headlights it stopped, because the red wire i had been using for ground all of a sudden was receiving power... quickly fixed that by realizing that i had a harness for rear defrost, and seeing as my car is a GTS and thus doesnt have rear defrost i just went ahead and spliced into the ground wire on that harness and hooked my power wire up to the skinny brown wire in the middle of the harness and now they work perfectly, just wish the instructions had been correct about the wiring but oh well, stack racings instructions are wrong with the chrome bezels too, they dont just snap in, i have an extra lense and surround so i'm having to glue them into that one, this way if i mess it up it doesnt matter because i have the lens and surround that are on the car anyways

 

ford has used red for grounds for years.

 

lol doesn't surprise me.