i bought gauges for my newly purchase 408 stroker and am wondering if its possible to splice all three red wires (3 gauges) together and connect them to another wire of a slightly lower gauge and then connect it to the fuse box? if possible, how do you do it and how do you acess the rear of the fuse panel?

 

I do not know how to access the fuse panel but at least on my truck many of the not used spots do not even have metal for contacts in them.

If you are just looking for switched power you can do what I did. I setup a relay that is triggered by a fuse tap using the cigarette lighter fuse. The relay feeds power to another universal fuse block that I ziptied to the bottom of the steering column. Now I have easily accessable switched and fused accesory power in the truck.

 

can you elaborate some. im sort of confused

 

The cigarette lighter, it seems, is switched power. I.E. Ignition has to be on for it to work. So, if you tap into that circuit, to run a relay, that supplies power to an auxiliary fuse block, that you can mount anywhere you like...... you can then run an accessories you care to off of the aux fuse block, and they will only be powered when the ignition is on.

I think.

 

I used to just tap into existing switched circuits, and it was fine for awhile, but eventually I added enough gauges and crap that I ran out of ones to use. So I stopped doing it that way, and went with a dedicated seperate fuse block instead. I used a Painless CirKit Boss fuse block, part# 70207 ($70 from Summit). It has 3 constant hot 20 amp cuircuits, and 4 ignition switched 20 amp cuircuits with relays. Install was very easy.

 

 

i installed a tachometer in my old Nissan 4x4, and wired it directly to the battery, and it shut off everytime i shut the truck off, and never was it a fire hazard, went mudding like that many times, and had no problems.

 

These are SUPER handy. I tin the ends of them though, because on Chrysler fuse boxes they have a tendency to rattle out on rough terrain/over time.

 

what is that a picture of? so i can plug a single one of those into an empty fuse spot to run all three gauges? do fuses plug into the top of it?

 

First there is no power and no way that I know of to easily get power to an empty fuse spot.

That is a fuse tap. It is used to get another source of fused power from a currently used spot. The original fused circuit will stay intact and this allows power to be pulled from that circuit. You could run the power directly to the gauges and be fine. I am suggesting using the extra power from that tap to trigger a relay that powers a fuse block and then pull the power for the gauges from that fuse block. This allows for easy expandability for accessories and puts very little strain on the wires that you are tapping the power from. I also suggest putting the fuse tap into the cigarette lighter fuse as this circuit can handle the extra load and is switched power. You can use a fancy fuse block like Silver but I used a cheap $6 one from an auto parts store. Only problem with it is that I could only find an inexpensive one for large fuses not the mini ones that are in the truck already.

Yes fuses plug into the top of it.