Its late in the afternoon and I am losing sunlight quickly.

I am installing my aftermarket gauges in the freezing cold. I have already installed the pods, and I have power with dimmer control for the background lights. What I can't not find is where to tap into the power line for the gauges. I only want the gauges on when the truck is running, but apparently Chrysler doesn't provide any type of spares in the fuse block unless I want to put a toggle switch on it and that is something I will not do.

I did a search on past articles, and I came up with a fuse tap. What is that? Apparently noone at O'reilly or Radio Shack had an idea either.

Thanks

One annoyed procrastinator

 

Fuse taps look like this:

Make sure you put the tap on the fused side, not the hot side of the fuse block.

 

any one know where to get those fuse taps?

 

Got mine at NAPA. Should be readily available.

 

www.radioshack.com has a fuse tap for the flat blade type fuses:

http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...%5Fid=270-1204

Maybe your local Radio Shack store will know what they are if you give them their own catalog number: 270-1204 or maybe if you print out and bring in a picture.

Also, what year truck are you working on? I've got a 2004 shop manual and I'd be happy to try and find a wire that is hot when running if you want.

 

I got something similar at Autozone for about $5.00.

 

Thank You,

After looking at your pictures, I realized that I should have asked everyone before I opened the dash. About five minutes before Amartinson's reply came in, I found an acceptable wire lead. As I looked at the picture after the completion of today's project, I said "Huh, that would have saved me about 3-4 hours in 30* weather."

Thanks for all the help again.

A much happier procrastinator