Ok i bought the triple gauge pod and 3 gauges. For my 96 Impala SS

A nitrous pressure gague (mechanical) Easy install, just tee off my n20 line and run a line inside the car.

Trans Temp gauge (electric) where should i put the temp sender unit? In the pan? If i drill a hole in the pan, must i drain the fluid after?

Oil Pressure Gauge (electric) Where should i put the oil pressure sending unit.In the pan? If i drill a hole in the pan, must i drain the oil after?


What about power to these gauges? Or if you know of any good install pages or tips or tricks.

Thanks

Mike (soon to be gauged up!)

And i will post pics of the install and recent Zanio bath i gave her! <img border="0" alt="[driving]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_driving3.gif" />

<small>[ February 14, 2003, 10:12 AM: Message edited by: Mike TexaSS ]</small>

 

Here are some directions I gave another guy for a trans temp on an f-body w/ t-56. This may or may not help with an Impala.


The Trans temp guage is kind of a PITA, but not too bad! Start off by installing the sender.

1) Take the bigger of the 2 adapters and screw in the sender (make sure to put teflon tape on the threads).


*NOTE: Now is a good time to change out the
transmition fluid. I used Royal Purple ATF.*

2) Take out the drain plug on your transmition and
drain fluid. once drained, replace plug with the
sender. The big adapter that you used in step 1 is an exact fit for the drain hole. (put teflon on threads)

3) Route a wire from the sender to the guage location. I ran mine from the guage (in the a/c vent), out the gromet behind the ECU, under the cowl overhang across to the intake manifold, and down behind the engine, and on to the sender. Keep wire away from the headers.

4) Get power to the guage. I did so by running some 18ga. speaker wire (because it conveniently has 2 wires run together) from the guage to the fuse box on the driverside in the side of the dash. When you take the cover off the fuse box you should see a red 15 amp fuse on the right side of the panel (towards the front of the car). This is the "guages" fuse for your dash
guages. Its virtually impossible to get behind the fuse panel to salder the wire in (it can be done), so I took the fuse out and sandwitched the wire between the fuse and the terminal block when I stuck the fuse back in. Then use the other wire and find a good ground. This way works just fine and is much easier.

5) Finding a power source for the light bulb. I
tapped into the dimmer roller switch. You will have to pull off the bezel around the steering column and guages to be able to pull out the dimmer switch unit so you can have easy access to the wires. I don't remember which wire it was (white I think), so use a light tester. Once I found it, I ran some of the same speaker wire I used before, from the dimmer to the bulb. Use the other wire for your ground.

That should do it! Not the eaiest install in the
world, but certainly not the hardest either!


I think the directions tell you to disconnect the
battey, but you're going to need power to find which wires have power to tap into. So, I would disconnect it wile you are running wire and what not. And reconnect it when you need to find power. Then disconnect it again once you have found power, just to be safe.

This probably reads more complicated than it really is! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Feel free to ask any questions. Hope this helps some. Good luck! <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />


Brian