shrewz92
Buick Newbie
- Joined
- Jul 20, 2009
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- Location
- Knoxville, Tn
- Buick Ownership
- 1976 Skylark v-6 231-cid carburated, 1997 Buick LeSabre Custom 193,539 miles (Son's College Car)
Knowing that the car doesn't have a great engine-status information system, except for Idiot Lights, and after watching a car revival channel on YouTube (Junkyard Digs), I want to start a project.
For each of the revivals, which may have a minimally-gauged dash, the lead usually adds a set of gauges to help monitor the health of those old cars.
Since the Custom we have doesn't have a gauge cluster that shows RPM, oil pressure, volts, temp, I'd like to add those to Great White.
Which of you all have done that addition, on a LeSabre, or another car, and how did you route the wiring through the firewall? Is there an adequate, and relatively easy spot/hole/harness pathway to pass that wiring through? I couldn't see any other easily accessible location except for the hood-release hole, near the Emergency Brake foot lever, which I used when I had to wire a new horn to the car. That took HOURS to fish the wiring through that hole because of my ignorance of any other place to route through the firewall. I didn't see any readily accessible places where wiring came through to the cabin, when I did that project in August.
My desire is to NOT remove the dash to chase-down a route, and to avoid drilling through, except as a last, destructive-resort. Great White belongs to my son, is his daily driver at college. When he comes back, in a couple of weeks, I'm thinking of taking a crack at it.
For each of the revivals, which may have a minimally-gauged dash, the lead usually adds a set of gauges to help monitor the health of those old cars.
Since the Custom we have doesn't have a gauge cluster that shows RPM, oil pressure, volts, temp, I'd like to add those to Great White.
Which of you all have done that addition, on a LeSabre, or another car, and how did you route the wiring through the firewall? Is there an adequate, and relatively easy spot/hole/harness pathway to pass that wiring through? I couldn't see any other easily accessible location except for the hood-release hole, near the Emergency Brake foot lever, which I used when I had to wire a new horn to the car. That took HOURS to fish the wiring through that hole because of my ignorance of any other place to route through the firewall. I didn't see any readily accessible places where wiring came through to the cabin, when I did that project in August.
My desire is to NOT remove the dash to chase-down a route, and to avoid drilling through, except as a last, destructive-resort. Great White belongs to my son, is his daily driver at college. When he comes back, in a couple of weeks, I'm thinking of taking a crack at it.
